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Visiones del exilio: Para leer a Zoé Valdés is a study on the narrative work of Cuban writer Zoé Valdés. Valdés, who left the island in 1995 and currently lives in Paris, has published poetry, short stories, and novels. She also writes for Spanish and French newspapers and is an important cultural icon of Cuban exile. A comprehensive study beginning with a general overview of Cuba during the 20th century, as well as a biographical summary of Valdés, Visiones de exilio offers a classification of her narratives, paying special attention to what she calls her "sexagonia" (a series of six...

Quella di Marcello è una vera e propria confessione. Con grande passione lui confida a un’amica scrittrice gli avvenimenti della sua travagliata esistenza. Ne esce un breve manoscritto che, si spera, riuscirà a coinvolgere il lettore. Perché, se è pur vero che ogni vita, qualunque essa sia, meriterebbe un romanzo biografico, quella del nostro protagonista ha qualcosa in più. Qualcosa che a tratti rasenta le antiche avventure di personaggi che hanno sfiorato la leggenda. Questa è la biografia di Marcellin bambino e di Marcello uomo. Una vita che meritava di non finire nell’oblio.

Explores Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa's days at a Lima military school, the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, which would become the setting for one of his most important early works, The Time of the Hero.

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...