Títulos em Ensaios

"Denn das Christentum ist eine Idee und als solche unzerstörbar und unsterblich wie jede Idee. Was ist aber diese Idee? Eben weil man diese Idee noch nicht klar begriffen und Äußerlichkeiten für die Hauptsache gehalten hat, gibt es noch keine Geschichte des Christentums." (Heinrich Heine: Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland) Die hellsichtige Prosa, die unkonventionellen Einsichten des Heinrich Heine in die Grundzüge, die Mentalitäten der abendländisch-christlichen Kultur sind bis heute gültig - und wenig gelesen.

Dopo aver perso il padre una giovane donna decide di percorrere il «Camino de Santiago» al contrario, partendo dalla fine. Un viaggio meraviglioso, sul superamento del lutto, e la scoperta di sé, raccontato da un libro ispirato e capace di ispirare. “So che il cammino ti ha dato le risposte che cercavi. Adesso ti auguro di trovare tutte le domande”. Con queste parole di uno sciamano messicano con un piede rotto è iniziato a Santiago il mio cammino alla rovescia.

Within Her Thoughts is a raw collection of K. Vincent’s deepest, darkest, and heartfelt thoughts and feelings. She uses symbolism to help portray everything that is trapped inside of her. K. Vincent hopes that with this collection, that they can touch others all around the world and know that they aren’t alone. She hopes that Within Her Thoughts can encourage others who are going through difficult times, to find courage and the will power to continue to move forward and to find an outlet like she has through her writings.

Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection.

林真理子さん阿川佐和子さん絶賛のエッセイ◎林真理子さん驚嘆大絶賛！天才を母に持ったことの喜劇と悲劇を越えて、さらにブラックさえほの見えるこの本、とにかく面白い。母もすごいが娘たちも負けてはいない。

アウト老とは、はみ出し老人のことなりアウト老（ロー）とは、はみ出し老人のことなり。大人げないまま新型高齢者となったみうらじゅんの珍妙な日常や妄想、愛のメモリーがてんこ盛り！

While his masterpiece On the Road languished on the desks of unresponsive editors, Kerouac turned to Buddhism, and in 1953 began writing reading notes on the subject intended for his friend Allen Ginsberg.

弁護士として、小説家として、昼はメディアで企業の不祥事を糾弾し、夜は書斎で、独り文章を綴ってきた。数多の顔を持つ著者は、どのように時代を感じ、読み解いたのか

ノスタルジーと、可笑しみと。池袋、飯能、日本橋、所沢、諏訪、田園調布、高知、恐山、湯河原……。自分の中の記憶を、街単位で遡る。そこから掘り起こされる、懐かしいだけでは片付かない、景色と感情。

Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.

Songs of My Father and Other Essays by Gardner Landry assembles relics of his writing from an earlier era that hearken to even earlier times, stretching from childhood into his adult years. The Fred essays recount some of his father’s choice exploits, while the second group includes anecdotes and observations from beyond the confines of his family.

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed since the early 1970s for his award-winning fiction and memoirs, has long been engaged in a project to redefine, from the perspective of an American of color, the wondrous and appalling power of his country’s literary culture and history. Now, curated by him, in this first-time collection from his extensive body of long-form journalism and biographical essays, listeners are offered a chance to see and judge for themselves how Wideman has proven himself to be a luminous witness of America’s history.

A truly significant discovery, Walt Whitman’s Manly Health and Training is an entertaining health manifesto that sheds new light on one of America’s major nineteenth-century authors. In the fall of 1858, a thirteen-part essay series appeared in the New York Atlas, under the title Manly Health and Training. This nearly 47,000-word journalistic effort, written by Walt Whitman under his pen name “Mose Velsor,” was lost for more than 150 years, buried in just a handful of library archives, until its recent unexpected discovery.

Die grauen Haare waren ein Schock, dann kam der Schlafentzug und diese unkontrollierte Wut auf alles und jeden, aber Wechseljahre? – das ist doch ...

ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಅವರು ಆಗಾಗ ಅಂದರೆ ವಿವಿಧ ಕಾಲಘಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿವಿಧ ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕ-ಜರ್ನಲ್ ಗಳಿಗೆ ಬರೆದ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು 'ಆಗೊಮ್ಮೆ ಈಗೊಮ್ಮೆ' ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. 'ನಾಟ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ' ದಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು 'Fearless ನಾದಿಯಾ' ಚಿತ್ರಗಳವರೆಗೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆಯ ವರೆಗೆ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯಮಯ ಬರಹಗಳು ಈ ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿವೆ.

Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is a timeless and thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between women and creativity. Based on a series of lectures delivered at Cambridge University in 1928, this seminal work blends sharp wit, eloquence, and intellectual rigor to examine the systemic barriers that have historically denied women the opportunity to achieve their artistic potential.

In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects which have captured her attention in recent years. She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola and Celia Paul. She invites us along to the movies, to see and to think about Tar, and to Glastonbury to witness the ascendance of Stormzy. She asks us to look again at the young Michael Jackson and to mourn with her the passing of writers Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison.

«Somos seres entretejidos de relatos, bordados con hilos de voces, de historia, de filosofía y de ciencia, de leyes y leyendas. Por eso, la lectura seguirá cuidándonos si cuidamos de ella. No puede desaparecer lo que nos salva. Los libros nos recuerdan, serenos y siempre dispuestos a desplegarse ante nuestros ojos, que la salud de las palabras enraíza en las editoriales, en las librerías, en los círculos de lecturas compartidas, en las bibliotecas, en las escuelas. Es allí donde imaginamos el futuro que nos une».

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child’s first-ever autobiographical collection. From urgently scribbling out his debut Killing Floor in pencil (the stub of which he still owns), to taking a step back with Blue Moon, and everything in between, here are 24 honest, witty and wise personal reflections on his life and work, crafted across decades.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK O confesiune magistrală aflată la granița dintre intimitatea unui jurnal și densitatea unei autobiografii, Crezul lui Fuentes ne poartă pe urmele artei și istoriei până la cele mai importante evenimente care i-au conturat lumea și pasiunile. O carte multifațetată, în care autorul mexican construiește o hartă trasată din gânduri și amintiri, alternând teme precum iubirea și prietenia cu pasaje despre Buñuel, Faulkner și Wittgenstein.