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Maurice
E. M. Forster · 2011
As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity. Frustrated and unfulfilled, a product of the bourgeoisie he will grow to despise, he has difficulty acknowledging his nascent attraction to men. At Cambridge he meets Clive, who opens his eyes to a less conventional view of the nature of love. Yet when Maurice is confronted by the societal pressures of life beyond university, self-doubt and heartbreak threaten his quest for happiness.
Call Me By Your Name
André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find total intimacy. The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.
Da poesia
Hilda Hilst · 2017
Autora homenageada da Flip 2018 Pela primeira vez, a produção poética de Hilda Hilst, dispersa em mais de vinte livros, é reunida em um único volume. A intensa e prolífica atividade literária de Hilda Hilst se desdobrou em livros de ficção e em peças de teatro, mas foi na poesia que ela deu início e fim à sua carreira. Ao longo de 45 anos, entre 1950 e 1995, a poeta publicou em pequenas tiragens graças ao entusiasmo de editoras independentes — com destaque para Massao Ohno, seu amigo e principal divulgador. No início dos anos 2000, os títulos de Hilda passaram a ser publicados pela Globo, editora com ampla distribuição. Nessa época, a sua escrita, até então considerada marginal e hermética, começou a receber o interesse de uma legião de leitores e estudiosos. Agora, a Companhia das Letras reúne, pela primeira vez, toda a lavra poética da autora de Bufólicas em um só livro, que inclui, além de mais de 20 títulos, uma seção de inéditos e fortuna crítica. O material contém posfácio de Victor Heringer, carta de Caio Fernando Abreu para Hilda, dois trechos de Lygia Fagundes Telles sobre a amiga e uma entrevista cedida a Vilma Arêas, publicada no Jornal do Brasil em 1989. A poesia de Hilda — que ganha forma em cantigas, baladas, sonetos e poemas de verso livre — explora a morte, a solidão, o amor erótico, a loucura e o misticismo. Ao fundir o sagrado e o profano, a poeta se firmou como uma das vozes mais transgressoras da literatura brasileira do século XX.
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.<br/><br/>Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.<br/><br/>From the Trade Paperback edition.
Lolita
Nabokov Vladimir · 2006
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here<br/><br/>Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than twelve-year-old Lolita, whom he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? . . Or is he all of these?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021
Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life.<br/>Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and records every sin.
Carta Ao Pai
Franz Kafka · 1997
Carta dirigida a seu pai, homem severo e de temperamento dominador, com quem o autor foi incapaz de desenvolver uma convivência pacífica. Ao longo da carta, Kafka escreve-lhe sobre o efeito negativo e perverso da educação que recebeu e sobre o sentimento de culpa por não conseguir corresponder com as expectativas. Um livro comovente e de uma sinceridade sufocante, que, tal como os seus romances, conduz-nos para temas como o isolamento, o medo e a vulnerabilidade do homem.
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell · 2020
authors
Franz Kafka
Florbela Espanca
Hilda Hist
Arthur Rimbaud
