Milan Kundera, un escritor entre la ironía y la profundidad
El autor de ‘La insoportable levedad del ser’ escribió 13 novelas en las que se entrelazan la filosofía, la política y la historia, sirviendo como escenarios desde los que retratar los dilemas y contradicciones de la propia existencia humana
This is how it happens for me. Perhaps, also how it happens for you. My morning begins with words, or maybe the words begin with me. Either way, you sit at your desk. You study. You stare. You read. You search for tracks and trails. Impressions in the snow.The marks of something worth following. The signs of something following me. A slow and awkward gait towards anything resembling spring...
El gran libro sobre la pérdida de un amor (que enterneció a Stephen King)
A finales de agosto, Errata Naturae publica 'Una vida de tres perros', de Abigail Thomas, uno de los libros más hermosos (y terroríficos) sobre el duelo
Marina Amores: "Para una mujer, alzar la voz en el mundo 'gamer' es igual a quedarte sin trabajo"
La escritora presenta las situaciones a las que se enfrentan las mujeres por el acoso 'online' y la complicada profesionalización en los 'e-sports' en su libro 'Play Like A Girl'
This looks super adorable and I’ve heard so many good things about The Tea Dragon Society series. I cannot wait to dive in! @bookstodon#books#bookstodon#GraphicNovel
"All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it."
De Quincey's Writings (ed. 1854)
Thomas De Quincey was born #OTD in 1785. He is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. via @wikipedia
Nuevas voces de la literatura latinoamericana: la escritora chilena Montserrat Martorell Colón
Periodista y docente, autora de tres novelas, la joven autora nacida en Buenos Aires es una de las voces más interesantes del nuevo panorama de la literatura chilena
Next up is Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes, a space ghost story involving a lost ship, a repair vessel and (I’m guessing) bad decisions in deep space. Seems like a good vacation read. #SummerReading#Books#Scifi#horror
He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation, and one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century. via @wikipedia
"That was the truth of magic - blood and guts and semen and spit, organs kept in jars, maps for hunting humans, the skulls of unborn infants. The problem wasn't books and fairy tales, just that they told half the story, offering up the illusion of a world where only the villains paid in blood, the ogre stepmothers, the wicked stepsisters, where magic was just and without sacrifice." - Leigh Bardugo
A year after her arrival in Paris, in 1835, Louise Colet published her poems and was awarded the Académie française prize of two thousand francs. In 1846, she met Gustave Flaubert, a young unknown in the studio of painter James Pradier. He was 25, she 36. They became lovers. The affair did not last. via @wikipedia
