Novedades

Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his genius and insatiable curiosity that helped catapult the Western world into the modern era. A N. Wilson tackles the life of Goethe with characteristic wit and verve. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy to his later years as Germany’s most respected elder statesman, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing – Faust.

This telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.

El "Libro del desasosiego", que presentamos traducido íntegramente por vez primera en lengua castellana, nació en 1913 y Pessoa trabajó en él durante toda su vida. Ésta es una obra inacabada e inacabable: un universo entero en expansión cuya pluralidad—literaria y vital—es infinita. Bernardo Soares, ayudante de tenedor de libros de contabilidad en la ciudad de Lisboa, autor ficticio de este libro, es, según Pessoa, "un semi-heterónimo, porque, no siendo su personalidad la mía, es, no dife­rente de la mía, sino una simple mutilación de ella".

It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organized crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enemy to worry about—for the time being. But as he puts his life back together, he discovers that he may be no match for his greatest enemy—himself.

Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify the scope and magnitude of this latest and most dramatic outbreak in one of the bloodiest, most nuanced, and longest-standing conflicts in modern history.

Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with the angriest person he ever met (the “girl of my dreams” Roth calls her); his clash, as a fledgling writer, with a Jewish establishment outraged by Goodbye, Columbus; and his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of an unmined side to his talent that led him to write Portnoy’s Complaint.

Love and death cohabit in The Use of Photography, with alternating chapters by the two authors. First published in France in 2005, the book recounts a passionate love affair between Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months and had lost all her hair from the treatments. At the end of January, she had surgery, followed by radiation therapy.

By the time of his death in 2023, Tom Horn was the CEO of the celebrated SkyWatch TV and Defender Publishing. He was well known for such books as Forbidden Gates, the Petrus Romanus series, and Zenith 2016, as well as his award-winning documentary, Inhuman.

I was born a BASTARD of southwest Philadelphia and raised in a rundown row house in one of America's most notorious GHETTOS, Camden, New Jersey. My upbringing was marked by a resilient mother, an inconsistent father, and the harsh realities of a city that claimed several of my immediate family member's lives, the youngest among them being a victim of police violence. I found myself embodying the archetype of an American stereotype.

In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine.

Fue una de las principales figuras de la arquitectura española de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. Autor de obras de inigualable belleza como la Casa Milá o el Park Güell, Gaudí siempre será recordado por la obra cumbre de su carrera: el Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia, una construcción colosal e inacabada en la que están condensados todos los principios que guiaron su interesante proceso creativo.

Autor de al menos dos de las obras fundamentales de la literatura mexicana (El águila y la serpiente y La sombra del caudillo), Martín Luis Guzmán es uno de esos personajes en los que se conjuga la maestría prosística y la inquietud insaciable.

Escritor estadounidense de origen ruso. Escribió en lenguas inglesa y rusa. Abandonó Rusia a los 19 años a raíz de la Revolución de Octubre, y residió en Inglaterra, Alemania y Francia; en 1940 se trasladó a EE. UU., donde enseñó Literatura en varias universidades...

David Tereshchuk leapt from an unpromising childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV journalist, first in London, then New York. During his working life, he has managed to extract revealing answers from tyrants and the oppressed, but never managed to coax his mother into admitting who his father was, even after her revelation to him, when he was in his 50s, that she had been raped, aged 15, by a priest.

Este libro reúne una selección de columnas de Manuel Jabois (Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, 1978) escritas entre 2009 y 2011 y publicadas en Diario de Pontevedra, en El Progreso y en su blog de la revista digital FronteraD. En Irse a Madrid Manuel Jabois se aparta de los lugares de la noticia para firmar una excelente y disparatada crónica sobre lo que le rodea. Desde su primera rueda de prensa con Camacho ("¡Tú de qué medio eres!") hasta su viaje como corresponsal a un congreso de empresarios de locales de alterne, en sus artículos acaba desmenuzando, como si fuera un otro, su propia vida.

Nace Diego de Silva y Velázquez en la ciudad de Sevilla el año de 1599. Su padre, Juan Rodríguez de Silva, es de ascendencia portuguesa y de familia noble. Su madre, Jerónima Velázquez, cuyo apellido va a perpetuarse en la historia de los pinceles, es de antigua familia sevillana. Desde muy joven siente Diego de Silva la llamada de la pintura, y acude a los talleres de los maestros sevillanos más competentes, como Herrera el Viejo, con quien se cree que estudió, aunque no hay pruebas documentales al efecto.

Early in her radio career Susie Ferguson became a war correspondent. The only woman among hundreds of soldiers, in a helmet and flak jacket she was one of the boys. None of them knew she was taking fifteen painkillers a day and relying on opioids to stem the burning and stabbing pain in her uterus. Even bloody-minded grit couldn't have prepared Susie for womanhood.

Sólo quedan de García Márquez sus palabras. Una docena de novelas, un volumen con todos sus cuentos, varios reportajes inolvidables, otro libro con sus discursos, centenares de entrevistas y reportajes, cinco volúmenes con sus columnas periodísticas –según algunos testimonios, una novela inédita– y en todos ellos hay episodios luminosos que le brindan, incluso al más desprevenido de sus lectores, muchos momentos de satisfacción.

Mario Vargas Llosa ha tenido una carrera fértil y universalmente reconocida, con más de 40 títulos publicados, en los que ha combinado la narrativa, el ensayo, la dramaturgia y las memorias. Sus escritos se leen en decenas de idiomas y han sido reconocidos con los principales premios literarios del mundo, incluso el Nobel de Literatura. El autor nos presenta un análisis de la vida y obra del escritor peruano con gran elocuencia de una manera crítica y apasionada.

Чехов в жизни — книга, созданная в жанре документального монтажа. Образ А. П. Чехова складывается в ней из многочисленных, подчас противоречащих друг другу свидетельств его современников — родственников, друзей, знакомых. Портрет, характер, семья, учеба, вера, творчество, медицина и т. д. — в полусотне тематически организованных глав Чехов предстает в самых разных ипостасях: как достойный сын, трогательно заботившийся о родителях; как любимец друзей и женщин; как путешественник и садовод; как интересный собеседник и оригинальный мыслитель.