Publicada en 1904, El difunto Matías Pascal supuso un giro en la narración costumbrista de la época y anticipó un tipo de relato en el que lo fundamental es el estudio psicológico del personaje, lo que luego sería una norma continua en el teatro de Pirandello. Un día Matías Pascal se va a Montecarlo huyendo de sus circunstancias: una suegra que lo martiriza, deudas crecientes y un trabajo que no le satisface. De repente ocurrirá un extraordinario suceso que le dará la oportunidad de liberarse. A partir de entonces será otra persona... Como todas las grandes novelas, El difunto Matías Pascal acepta múltiples lecturas: en ella se puede ver desde una hilarante farsa a un profundo estudio de la soledad humana vista por un hombre sin identidad ni pasado, que decide reconstruir su vida empezando desde cero. En última instancia, Pirandello nos muestra con virtuosa sencillez la esencia tragicómica del ser humano, cuando es despojado de la máscara que lo acompaña siempre.

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech. One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.

Novalis se encuentra entre dos movimientos culturales contrapuestos y no siempre faciles de deslindar; en el podemos encontrar al romantico y al ilustrado, al espiritualista y al cientificista, al progresista y al reaccionario. Los Himnos a la noche son seis poemas en los que encontramos las principales caracteristicas de su obra: la trasposicion al orden universal y humano de una experiencia concreta del autor. En su novela inacabada, Enrique de Ofterdingen, desarrolla esa concepcion filosofica y religiosa.

Novalis se encuentra entre dos movimientos culturales contrapuestos y no siempre faciles de deslindar; en el podemos encontrar al romantico y al ilustrado, al espiritualista y al cientificista, al progresista y al reaccionario. Los Himnos a la noche son seis poemas en los que encontramos las principales caracteristicas de su obra: la trasposicion al orden universal y humano de una experiencia concreta del autor. En su novela inacabada, Enrique de Ofterdingen, desarrolla esa concepcion filosofica y religiosa.

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching View our feature on George Orwell s 1984 Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality This beautiful paperback edition features deckled edges and french flaps a perfect gift for any occasion Alternate cover edition can be found here.

The Novices of Sais is a Romantic meld of poetry, philosophy, and transcendental journey. Revolutionary yet profoundly simple at once, Novalis’ reverence for the natural world pours out of every page. Translated into French in 1925, it was embraced by artists and poets alike and is often quoted by the Surrealists. Paul Klee’s drawings were inspired by this visionary exploration of the inner life of modern humankind.

Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg (1772-1801 ), detto Novalis, poeta e pensatore tedesco amico di F. Schlegel e di Fichte, di Schelling e di Tieck, è quasi il simbolo del romanticismo come sintesi del rapporto tra natura e spirito per mezzo della poesia. Secondo i romantici ciò che è negato alla ragione e alla filosofia, cioè la possibilità di attingere la verità assoluta, il mistero insondabile della realtà, è concesso alla poesia come negazione delle categorie intellettuali: «la poesia rappresenta l'irrappresentabile, vede l'invisibile, sente il non sensibile». Il suo metodo dichiaratamente poetico e non filosofico è quello dell'analogia, delle illuminazioni vertiginose e paradossali, della malinconia e dell'ironia romantiche, ma il fine è filosofico, cioè quello di cogliere la natura e lo spirito, l'universo e if pensiero uniti e inscindibili, come totalità. Più che negli « Inni alla notte » o nei « Discepoli di Sais», o più ancora che nel bellissimo «Enrico di Ofterdin-gen», questi temi sono evidenti nei «Frammenti», l'opera più interessante di Novalis, una vasta sintesi enciclopedica della cultura, una sorta di affascinante poema filosofico scritto per aforismi. Psicologia, mitologia, metafisica, religione e magia in Novalis si intrecciano e si confondono perché egli è convinto della profonda unità dello spirito: così nei suoi aforismi sentiamo echi di Platone e di Goethe, di Vico e di Plotino, di Spinoza e di Paracelso, ma anche straordinarie anticipazioni di Proust e di Rilke, di Bergson e di Valéry, di Freud e di Jung, come fa osservare Enzo Paci nella sua introduzione.

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching View our feature on George Orwell s 1984 Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality This beautiful paperback edition features deckled edges and french flaps a perfect gift for any occasion Alternate cover edition can be found here.

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ("The Nose"), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success ("Nevsky Prospect"), and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat ("The Overcoat").

El Jardin de los Cerezos By Anton Chejov, Tao Editorial (Edited by)

El Jardin de los Cerezos By Anton Chejov, Tao Editorial (Edited by)

Transfigurando, en una mezcla mágica, elementos del teatro de marionetas, el entremés cervantino y la comedia dellarte, don Ramón del Valle-Inclán consigue, en 1912, la maravillosa creación de LA MARQUESA ROSALINDA. La originalidad de forma sirve aquí a un propósito trascendente. Porque esta farsa sentimental y grotesca liquida, rindiéndole homenaje, al bello sueño del modernismo superficial poblado de cisnes, rosas y princesas; pero, más allá de ello, abre los ojos del espectador a la limpia contemplación de la realidad española y de la realidad humana. Una página histórica se vuelve cuando la marquesa Rosalinda se despide con un ¡Por siempre adiós! y Arlequín torna, desengañado, a su carrera de cómico. César Oliva, catedrático de Teoría y Práctica del Teatro en la Universidad de Murcia, ofrece en esta edición un estudio integral de la obra, atento no sólo a las referencias intertextuales, sino a la riqueza léxica y a la deslumbrante escenografía.

En esta pequeña obra maestra, escrita en julio de 1900 y que constituye uno de los primeros monólogos interiores de la literatura europea, Arthur Schnitzler experimenta con la narración de un flujo de consciencia, el del teniente Gustl, que ve cómo un acto banal puede a llegar a complicarle la vida: en cuestión de segundos, pasará de ser mero espectador de un concierto a temeroso contendiente en un duelo de honor. Este trepidante relato, que ocasionó no poco revuelo en el momento de su aparición, concentra en su verdad lo mejor de ese estilo punzante, regio y expresionista tan propio del escritor vienés.

The Last Wolf features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another, dragged about a cold foreign place, appalled by a species’ end) is narrated— all in a single sentence—as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary wintry Berlin bar to a patently bored bartender. The Last Wolf is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell—with the narrator trapped in his own experience (having internalized the extermination of the last creature of its kind and “ locked Extremadura in the depths of his own cold, empty, hollow heart ”)—enfolding the reader in the exact same sort of entrapment to and beyond the end, with its first full-stop period of the book. Herman, “a peerless virtuoso of trapping who guards the splendid mysteries of an ancient craft gradually sinking into permanent oblivion,” is asked to clear a forest’s last “noxious beasts.” In Herman I: The Game Warden, he begins with great zeal, although in time he “suspects that maybe he was ‘on the wrong scent.’” Herman switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game... In Herman II: The Death of a Craft, the same situation is viewed by strange visitors to the region. Hyper-sexualized aristocratic officers on a very extended leave are enjoying a saturnalia with a bevy of beauties in the town nearest the forest. With a sense of effete irony, they interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman, and in the end, “only we are left to relish the magic bouquet of this escapade...”

When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother, Hindley, sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine and Heathcliff mature, and their affection blossoms into desire, Hindley’s resentment boils over into hatred, setting the stage for a tragic drama whose aftermath will shake the foundations of their world.

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Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu presente toutes les caracteristiques du recit de peintre classique. Tout d'abord, il met en scene des personnages de peintres. Nicolas Poussin et Francois Porbus sont des artistes ayant reellement existe. Le premier est considere comme le maitre inconteste de la peinture francaise au XVIIeme siecle. Balzac choisit une periode de sa vie sur laquelle nous n'avons que peu d'elements afin de conserver sa liberte de conteur. Francois Porbus (1570-1622) est un peintre flamand de renom qui a un temps ete attache a la Cour de France. Frenhofer, le genie de la peinture, est, quant a lui, un personnage imaginaire.