Escrito como una serie de ensayos autobiográficos, Una guía sobre el arte de perderse se basa en momentos y relaciones emblemáticos en la vida de Rebecca Solnit para explorar la incertidumbre, la confianza, la pérdida, la memoria, el deseo y los lugares. Si bien es profundamente personal, sus propias historias se vinculan con historias más grandes, desde narraciones en cautiverio de los primeros estadounidenses hasta el uso del color azul en la pintura renacentista, sin mencionar los encuentros con tortugas, monjes, punk rockers, montañas, desiertos y la película Vértigo. El resultado es un viaje de descubrimiento distintivo y estimulante. Bellamente escrito, este libro combina memorias, historia y filosofía, arrojando una nueva y brillante luz sobre la forma en que vivimos ahora.
Escrito como una serie de ensayos autobiográficos, 'Una guía sobre el arte de perderse' se basa en momentos y relaciones emblemáticos en la vida de Rebecca Solnit para explorar la incertidumbre, la confianza, la pérdida, la memoria, el ...
Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves.
"This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and--perhaps most salient--imagination and liberty.
The best-known work by the eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angulo, Indians in Overalls is a fascinating account of his first linguistic field trip—in 1921—to the Achumawi tribe of northeastern California.
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A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of Chilé's most celebrated contemporary poets. Raúl Zurita’s INRI is a visionary response to the atrocities committed under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
As Christopher Dickey wrote in the Daily Beast, Strauss-Kahn “claims that his less-than-seven-minute sexual encounter with this woman he'd never met before was consensual. To be- lieve him, you'd have to buy the line that Diallo took ...
Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once.
En otras palabras, los sumerios nos dieron la sublimidad de la fe y la rigidez del pensamiento religioso junto con el deseo de supremacía política.
Amy Fusselman’s compact, beautifully digressive essay feels both surprising and effortless, fueled by broad-ranging curiosity, and, fundamentally, joy. “Fusselman bounds with great dexterity from theme to theme—covering topics ...