Títulos em Arte e Literatura

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's work-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing? How does creative collaboration enhance individual talent? And what can we learn from their example? Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford, and a seat at their table at the Eagle and Child pub.

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Born out of the onrush of memories and feelings provoked by her mother Mary’s death, this is the astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny memoir of the Arundhati Roy’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

Um livro há muito aguardado pelo público, mostrando uma Clarice Lispector fora do pedestal acadêmico de escritora intocável.

"Changer : méthode" est le récit d'une vie, le parcours douloureux et difficile d'un transfuge de classe pour s'extraire de son milieu culturel et social. La profondeur des changements intimes, la douleur des liens qui se rompent et la volonté inouïe qu'il faut mettre en œuvre pour se réinventer sont au cœur de ce livre audio magnifique.

Mit elf Jahren wurde die gebürtige Wienerin und spätere amerikanische Germanistin Ruth Klüger in das KZ Theresienstadt und nach Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert. Sie überlebte, doch das weitere Leben blieb bis zuletzt eine Herausforderung. In ihren Erinnerungen schildert Klüger fünfzig Jahre später ihre jüdische Kindheit und Jugend in Wien während des Nationalsozialismus, die Bedingungen ihres Überlebens und die (Un)möglichkeit des Weiterlebens. Ihre Worte, so klar wie kompromisslos, schmerzen und erschüttern bis heute. Gelesen von der Autorin selbst, entfaltet der Text einen unwiderstehlichen Sog.

Told in a series of letters, this true story of the correspondence between a New York writer and a London bookseller has touched the hearts of thousands.

For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood and the question of legacy, or, as she put it, 'what it’s been worth.'

Último livro publicado pela poeta e ativista, Maya Angelou, Mamãe & Eu & Mamãe descreve sua conturbada relação com a mãe, a empresária Vivian “Lady” Baxter, com quem voltou a morar aos 13 anos, depois de dez sob os cuidados da avó paterna. A narrativa autobiográfica, mas ainda assim poética, conta como se deu a (re)construção desse relacionamento entre mãe e filha em busca de reconciliação, o que terminar por traduzir-se em uma poderosa história de amor e cura.

Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone. This is the absorbing chronicle of that year.

Donna Leon hat viel erlebt, in Amerika, dem Iran, Saudi-Arabien, Italien natürlich oder in der Schweiz. Kaum aber passiert ihr ein Abenteuer, wird auch schon eine spannende Geschichte daraus. Sie erzählt uns von ihrer Jugend auf der Farm und von Sperrstunden-Pyjamapartys im Iran, Geldnot und einem Fiat 600. Davon, wie sie als "Anstandsdame" nach Italien kam, von der Jagd nach dem perfekten Cappuccino und kleinen Wundern in den Bergen.

Escrito com base em pesquisa bibliográfica e documentos de primeira mão, Em busca da alma brasileira–biografia de Mário de Andrade passa a limpo um dos capítulos mais fascinantes da nossa história cultural, que traz muitas lições para o Brasil de hoje.

Robert Dessaix’s Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes an identity in flux: his beginnings as an adopted child named Thomas Robert Jones, his youthful interest in religious thinking, his obsession with all things Russian, his marriage to Lisa and divorce, his discovery of travel.

Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.

Em Will, uma das maiores personalidades do entretenimento se abre em uma biografia corajosa e inspiradora sobre sucesso, felicidade e conexão humana. Ao longo da narrativa, Will Smith descreve em detalhes uma das jornadas mais incríveis já vividas no mundo da música e do cinema. O processo de transformação de Will Smith de um jovem do oeste da Filadélfia a um dos maiores astros do rap de sua geração e, posteriormente, um dos nomes mais conhecidos de Hollywood é uma narrativa épica — mas é apenas parte da história.

Chanel não foi somente a mulher que criou e imortalizou o “pretinho básico”, também popularizou as calças femininas e roupas fáceis e práticas que deixavam as mulheres chiques e confortáveis. Com sua personalidade forte e decidida, elegante e passional, de um jeito totalmente francês, Coco conduziu as mulheres diretamente para uma nova era. O Evangelho de Coco Chanel é um cativante olhar sobre o estilo, a fama e o talento de um dos maiores ícones da moda.

Com uma carreira artística incomparável, Marina Abramović supera medo, dor, exaustão e perigo para realizar performances que relacionam os limites do corpo e as possibilidades da mente. E, para celebrar os 50 anos de performances inovadoras, Marina demonstrou mais de uma vez que é, verdadeiramente, uma força da natureza: realizou, no MoMA, em 2010, com fila de mais de 750 mil pessoas, a retrospectiva de seus trabalhos e uma performance sem precedentes.

Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum - of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely 50 years old, who can hardly walk or breathe: “You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that.

"J'ai voulu l'oublier cette fille. L'oublier vraiment, c'est-à-dire ne plus avoir envie d'écrire sur elle. Ne plus penser que je dois écrire sur elle, son désir, sa folie, son idiotie et son orgueil, sa faim et son sang tari. Je n'y suis jamais parvenue." Dans "Mémoire de fille", Annie Ernaux replonge dans l'été 1958, celui de sa première nuit avec un homme, à la colonie de S dans l'Orne. Nuit dont l'onde de choc s'est propagée violemment dans son corps et sur son existence durant deux années.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.