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El mundo como voluntad y representación
Arthur Schopenhauer • 2005
"El mundo como voluntad y representación" es, sin ninguna duda, la obra cumbre del filósofo alemán Arthur Schopenhauer. Publicada originalmente en 1819, fue revisada y aumentada en varias ocasiones hasta su versión definitiva, publicada cuarenta años más tarde, uno antes de morir el autor. En ella, el pensador alemán desarrolló y compendió todo un corpus filosófico y una ética vivencial partiendo de la idea principal de que el ser es voluntad y su expresión fenomenológica es la representación. Si bien su éxito e influencia le llegaron tardíamente al autor, nadie puede dudar hoy de la importancia capital que esta obra tuvo en el pensamiento occidental contemporáneo, tanto en el campo de la filosofía, como en el de las artes o la literatura. La presente edición reproduce la publicación alemana de 1859, reuniendo, por primera vez en castellano, todos los libros, complementos y apéndices en un solo volumen en formato bolsillo. Su traducción, cuidadosamente revisada por especialistas, ofrece el texto sin fisuras, en su propio contexto y anotación para poder ser comprendido en su pureza y complejidad originaria.
Un cuarto propio
Virginia Woolf • 2024
El ensayo sobre la condición de la mujer que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura y del feminismo.<br/>«Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor.»<br/>Milena Busquets<br/>Considerado uno de los textos fundadores del feminismo moderno, Un cuarto propio puso en circulación ideas como la importancia de la independencia económica de la mujer y la necesidad de refutar su representación histórica en calidad de simple musa del artista. La célebre sentencia que le da título, «para escribir novelas, una mujer debe tener dinero y un cuarto propio», sigue resonando en nuestro tiempo y llamando a vincular lo personal y lo político.<br/>La presente edición cuenta con la insuperable traducción de Jorge Luis Borges, que ya en vida de la autora la llamó «una de las inteligencias e imaginaciones más delicadas» de la literatura inglesa y apuntó que, en este libro construido con gracia musical, «alternan el ensueño y la realidad y encuentran su equilibrio».<br/>La crítica ha dicho...<br/>«Un texto central del feminismo, que analiza con lucidez una realidad pareja a la de hoy, un siglo después de su escritura. Me parece fundamental conocer la palabra y las experiencias de quienes nos precedieron».<br/>Elena Medel<br/>«Yo creía haber leído Un cuarto propio. [...] Lo empecé a media tarde y claro que me sonaba. Al cabo de dos o tres páginas era una sorpresa incesante. Qué escritora más inmensa: más serena y rotunda en su enfado de mujer harta de limitaciones impuestas y de condescendencias masculinas, qué radical su defensa de la literatura, del ocio de escribir, de la alegría y la conmoción de leer.»<br/>Antonio Muñoz Molina<br/>«Inauguró un género literario.»<br/>Luna Miguel<br/>«En la obra de Virginia Woolf se dieron unas cualidades heredadas y una voluntad inéditas e irrepetibles en la historia de la cultura inglesa.»<br/>T. S. Eliot<br/>«Virginia Woolf sentó las bases de la novela del futuro.»<br/>Jeanette Winterson<br/>«Leyéndola, se percibe el funcionamiento de una gran integridad crítica.»<br/>Leonard Woolf<br/>«No puedo imaginarme un escritor cuya devoción por su arte, esfuerzo y severidad hacia sí [...] siga siendo un ejemplo que sea a la vez una inspiración y un juez.»<br/>W. H. Auden<br/>«Virginia Woolf es la principal figura del modernismo en Inglaterra y, con Joyce y Proust, llevó a cabo experimentos que rompieron por completo con la tradición».<br/>The New York Times<br/>«Una de las grandes innovadoras de la gran década del modernismo literario, los años veinte».<br/>The Guardian<br/>«Virginia Woolf sostuvo la luz de la lengua inglesa contra la oscuridad.»<br/>E. M. Forster<br/>«Una escritora que ha difuminado los límites entre lo público, lo político y lo privado; entre ficción, historia y biografía.»<br/>Irene Chikiar Bauer
Kafka en la orilla (Spanish Edition)
Haruki Murakami • 2013
Kafka Tamura Se Va De Casa El Día En Que Cumple Quince Años. Los Motivos, Si Es Que Los Hay, Son Las Malas Relaciones Con Su Padre –un Famoso Escultor Convencido De Que Su Hijo Repetirá El Aciago Sino Del Edipo De La Tragedia Clásica– Y La Sensación De Vacío Producida Por La Ausencia De Su Madre Y Su Hermana, Que Se Marcharon También Cuando él Era Muy Pequeño. Sus Pasos Le Llevarán Al Sur Del País, A Takamatsu, Donde Encontrará Refugio En Una Peculiar Biblioteca Y Conocerá A La Misteriosa Señora Saeki. Si Sobre La Vida De Kafka Se Cierne La Tragedia (en El Sentido Clásico), Sobre La De Satoru Nakata Ya Se Ha Abatido: De Niño, Durante La Segunda Guerra Mundial, Sufrió Un Extraño Accidente Del Que Salió Con Secuelas, Sumido En Una Especie De Olvido De Sí, Con Dificultades Para Comunicarse... Salvo Con Los Gatos. A Los Sesenta Años Abandona Tokio Y Emprende Un Viaje Que Le Conducirá También A La Biblioteca De Takamatsu. Así, Las Vidas Y Destinos De Los Personajes Se Van Entretejiendo En Un Curso Inexorable Que No Atiende A Razones Ni Voluntades. Pero, A Veces, Hasta Los Oráculos Se Equivocan.
Humano, demasiado humano
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2018
La Tregua
2000
La insoportable levedad del ser (Spanish Edition)
Kundera • 2017
Esta es una extraordinaria historia de amor, o sea de celos, de sexo, de traiciones, de muerte y también de las debilidades y paradojas de la vida cotidiana de dos parejas cuyos destinos se entrelazan irremediablemente. Y el lector no puede sino terminar siendo el mismo personaje, cuando no todos a la vez. Y es que esta novela va dirigida al corazón, pero también a la cabeza del lector. En efecto, los celos de Teresa por Tomás, el terco amor de éste por ella opuesto a su irrefrenable deseo de otras mujeres, el idealismo lírico y cursi de Franz, amante de Sabina, y la necesidad de ésta, amante también de Tomás, de perseguir incansable, una libertad que tan sólo la conduce a la insoportable levedad del ser, se convierten de simple anécdota en reflexión sobre problemas filosóficos que, afectan a cada uno directamente, cada día.
El túnel
Ernesto Sabato • 2022
Una historia sobre la incomunicación y sobre la conversión del amor en odio<br/>Esta es la confesión del crimen cometido por el pintor Pablo Castel. María Iribarne es una joven mujer que contempla un detalle –para él fundamental– en una de sus obras.<br/>Castel desarrolla un vínculo que intenta analizar en la densa trama de este relato que mantiene brutal actualidad, y se enfoca de manera obsesiva en cada uno de los pequeños detalles que él considera los móviles con los que justifica su atroz accionar.
los miserables
Victor Hugo • 2015
The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation’s 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction. The subject of the world’s longest-running musical and the award-winning film, Les Misérables is a genuine literary treasure. Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared over 150 years ago. This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamaki’s brilliant cover art will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
La muerte de Ivan Ilych
Lev Tolstoy • 2019
In "The Death of Ivan Ilych," Lev Tolstoy delves into the inevitable and universal theme of death, presenting a poignant critique of artificial bourgeois society and the struggles of the human soul. As Ivan Ilych grapples with a terminal illness, he confronts the existential void and re-evaluates the superficial life he has led. Tolstoy's narrative is a meditation on the nature of life and the inescapable truth of mortality. This masterful novella remains a profound reflection on how we confront and give meaning to our own ending.
El Principe
Niccolò Machiavelli • 2021
The ends justifies the means.<br/><br/>The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.
El manifesto comunista
Karl Marx • 1992
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared the earth-shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in 1848, it quickly became the credo of the poor and oppressed who longed for a society "in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."<br/><br/>The Communist Manifesto contains the seeds of Marx's more comprehensive philosophy, which continues to inspire influential economic, political, social, and literary theories. But the Manifesto is most valuable as an historical document, one that led to the greatest political upheaveals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the establishment of the Communist governments that until recently ruled half the globe.<br/><br/>This Bantam Classic edition of The Communist Manifesto includes Marx and Engels's historic 1872 and 1882 prefaces, and Engels's notes and prefaces to the 1883 and 1888 editions.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2018
<b>Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon</b><br> <br> <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br> <br>The original 1818 text of <i>Frankenstein</i> preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.<br> <br> This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson. <br> <br>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
El retrato de Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 2023
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre • 2013
Sartre's greatest novel ― and existentialism's key text ― now introduced by James Wood.<br/>Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time ― the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.”<br/>Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre ― philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist ― holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausée, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.
Indigo del ser humano
Osamu Dazai • 1973
<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>
Clasicos
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 1992
Albert Camus
Cartas a un amigo alemán (Spanish Edition)
Albert Camus • 1995
La muerte feliz
Albert Camus • 1900
Is it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.
CAIDA, LA
ALBERT CAMUS • 2021
El hombre rebelde
Albert Camus • 2021
Product Description El gran clásico acerca del pensamiento rebelde en la Edad Moderna, firmado por uno de los faros morales del siglo xxEn su clásico estudio del pensamiento rebelde, Albert Camus traza un recorrido que va desde la Ilustración hasta las revoluciones del siglo XX, pasando por movimientos como el anarquismo o el nihilismo. Polémico desde su publicación, el libro explora también el vínculo entre rebeldía política y estética, con análisis de figuras como el marqués de Sade, Marx, Nietzsche y los surrealistas. Camus no solo repasa casi dos siglos de insumisión, sino que ofrece valiosas hipótesis sobre la desmesura de su tiempo y, en buena medida, del nuestro.Sobre la obra:«He leído El hombre rebelde, que me gusta mucho; ese es el único motivo de esta nota».Hannah Arendt, carta al autor«Este ensayo conserva su actualidad, se lee siempre con un ojo nuevo. La mesura que elogia es lo contrario de la resignación. [...] El hombre rebelde impide perder el valor, y abre las puertas a la esperanza».Roger Grenier«Gran ensayo erudito y culto [...] esta obra aborda la revuelta en sus aspectos metafísicos, históricos y artísticos. Más que en ninguna otra de sus obras, aquí se expresa la evolución del espíritu de protesta de Camus, que hace de este ensayo un clásico absoluto».Florent Mazzoleni About the Author Albert Camus (Mondovi, Argelia, 1913 - Villeblevin, Francia, 1960) fue uno de los escritores e intelectuales franceses más importantes del siglo XX. Escribió novelas, relatos, ensayos, crónicas y obras de teatro. También llevó a la escena ambiciosas adaptaciones de novelas modernas y de clásicos dramáticos españoles. Durante la ocupación alemana dirigió el periódico de la Resistencia francesa Combat y, después de la guerra, defendió siempre una posición de izquierdas, aunque se fue alejando del marxismo y el comunismo. Entre sus libros destacan las novelas El extranjero, La peste y La caída; las piezas teatrales Calígula, El malentendido y Los justos; y los ensayos El mito de Sísifo y El hombre rebelde. Autor de una obra amplia y polifacética, Albert Camus recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1957 «por su importante producción literaria, que ilumina con lúcida seriedad los problemas de la conciencia humana de hoy».
La peste
Albert Camus • 2002
Rare book
El mito de sisifo
Albert Camus • 2018
A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.<br/><br/>Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly presents a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.
El extranjero
Albert Camus • 1989
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.<br/><br/>Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.<br/><br/>“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” —from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie<br/><br/>First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
Fiódor Dostoyevski
Memorias del subsuelo
Fiódor M. Dostoievski • 2023
«En una novela tiene que haber un héroe, y aquí se han reunido deliberadamente todos los rasgos del antihéroe», dice el narrador sin nombre de Memorias del subsuelo. En la primera parte del libro, un funcionario de grado mediano de cuarenta años, ya retirado, se dirige a un imaginario público como un orador. En la segunda parte, a partir del recuerdo de una anécdota de juventud, la novela empieza a poblarse de personajes –tenientes engreídos, amigos aduladores, criados altivos, jóvenes prostitutas– que acaban de perfilar, con sus juergas y sus desaires, el característico universo dostoievskiano. El «subsuelo» desde donde escribe el protagonista es un espacio simbólico de «la falta de contacto con la vida» y del «presuntuoso rencor» que esta genera, pero también un refugio donde reina una falsa sensación de «tranquilidad». Es el lugar donde viven los insectos, las arañas y los ratones, y también el hombre superfluo, «incapaz de amar», ese gran prototipo de la literatura rusa.
El jugador
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2019
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a classic novel that follows the story of Alexei Ivanovitch, a young man who falls prey to his gambling addiction. Through his descent into a world of debt and despair, Alexei is forced to confront the harsh realities of his obsession. With vivid and intense detail, Dostoevsky paints a picture of a man struggling against his own worst habits and the consequences of his reckless behavior. The Gambler is a powerful story of loss, desperation, and ultimately, redemption. This edition is based on a translation by C.J. Hogarth (1869-1942), originally published in 1917.<br/><br/>Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher whose psychological depth and insight into the human condition made him one of the most celebrated authors of all time. His works, including Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, and The Idiot, have been translated into more than 170 languages and are considered to be some of the greatest works of literature in the world. Dostoevsky explored the depths of human emotions and experience, focusing on themes such as morality, suffering, and redemption. His works are often credited with pioneering existentialism and introducing the theme of nihilism to literature. Dostoevsky was also an influential political thinker, advocating for social justice and challenging the status quo of the time. His writing continues to inspire readers around the world and his legacy lives on as one of the greatest authors of all time.
Memorias del subsuelo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2008
Noches blancas
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024
Embark on a poignant journey through the streets of St. Petersburg with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "White Nights." This classic novella weaves an intricate tapestry of longing and ephemeral romance, capturing the essence of human emotion in a world where dreams and reality blur.<br/><br/>Meet the nameless narrator, a lonely dreamer who roams the city’s shimmering nights, filled with hope and heartache. His solitary existence takes a turn when he encounters Nastenka, a spirited young woman yearning for love. Their chance meeting unfolds a tender yet tragic tale, exploring themes of unfulfilled desires, the nature of love, and the contrasts between reality and fantasy.<br/><br/>Perfect for fans of classic literature and deep psychological insights, "White Nights" invites readers to reflect on their own experiences of love and isolation. Dostoevsky’s lyrical prose and profound character development resonate with timeless relevance, making this novella a must-read for anyone seeking an introspective escape into the human soul.<br/><br/>Join the ranks of literary enthusiasts and discover why "White Nights" remains a beloved work in the canon of world literature. Immerse yourself in this emotional landscape, and let Dostoevsky's genius illuminate the depths of your heart.
Los hermanos caramazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2003
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.<br/><br/>When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.<br/><br/>This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading.<br/><br/>“There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers Karamazov.”—Joyce Carol Oates<br/><br/>“Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life.”—Friedrich Nietzsche<br/><br/>“The most magnificent novel ever written.”—Sigmund Freud
El idiota
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2004
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot<br/><br/>Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin— known as the “idiot”—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of “a truly beautiful soul” and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.<br/><br/>David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.
Crimen y castigo (Penguin Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2002
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read<br/><br/>Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.<br/>This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky’s great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky’s life and work.
Franz Kafka
El proceso
Franz Kafka • 2024
Carta al padre
Franz Kafka • 2018
La metamorfosis
Franz Kafka • 2018
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.
Jorge Orwell
1984
George Orwell • 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
La rebelion de la granja
George Orwell • 2024
Uncategorized
El Conde De Monte-cristo (Spanish Edition)
Alexandre Dumas • 2016
ENSAYO SOBRE LA CEGUERA
JOSE SARAMAGO • 2015
Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el primer caso de una «ceguera blanca» que luego se propaga de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la naturaleza humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a toda costa.<br/><br/>Con esas premisas, José Saramago traza una imagen aterradora y conmovedora de los tiempos de crisis. También, en el cruce de la literatura y la sabiduría, nos exhorta a los lectores a cerrar los ojos y ver más allá de las evidencias. Recuperar la lucidez y rescatar el afecto son dos propuestas fundamentales de una novela que es, además, una reflexión sobre la ética del amor y la solidaridad.
Orgullo y prejuicio (Edicion conmemorativa) / Pride and Prejudice (Commemorative Edition) (Spanish Edition)
Jane Austen • 2017
<b><b>Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>Penguin Clásicos publica en una cuidada edición esta obra maestra de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos, para conmemorar el bicentenario de la publicación original de la novela en 1813.</b><br><br>A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulador... El trazado de los caracteres y el análisis de las relaciones humanas sometidas a un rígido código de costumbres, elementos esenciales de la narrativa de la autora, alcanzan en Orgullo y prejuicio cotas de maestría insuperable.«Pero mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad.»<br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br><br>Penguin Classics has published this all-time masterpiece of British literature in a special edition to commemorate the bicentennial of the original novel’s publication in 1813<br>.</b> Throughout a plot that flows with the precision of clockwork, Jane Austen profiles a gallery of characters who make up a perfect yet subtle portrait of the time: the drama of a lady determined to marry off her daughters to the biggest catches in the area, the ups and downs of the sisters, the opportunism of a sweet-talking minister… the outline of the characters and analysis of the human relationships subjected to a rigid code of customs, essential elements of the author’s narrative, reach insurmountable heights of mastery in Pride and Prejudice. <b>"But vanity, not love, has been my folly."</b>
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo • 1994
<p>A masterpiece of the surreal, this stunning novel from Mexico depicts a man's strange quest for his heritage. Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Páaacute;ramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows-a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Páramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits sharing the secrets of the past.</p><p>First published to both critical and popular acclaim in 1955, Pedro Páramo represented a distinct break with earlier, largely "realist" novels from Latin America. Rulfo's entrancing mixture of vivid sensory images, violent passions, and inexplicable sorcery--a style that has come to be known as 'magical realism"--has exerted a profound influence on subsequent Latin American writers, from Jos' Donoso and Carlos Fuentes to Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Márquez.</p>
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges • 2011
La naranja mecánica
Anthony Burgess • 2022
FARENHEIT 451
Ray Bradbury • unde
The Bradbury classic about a future crisis in intellectual freedom and book burning.
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol • 1997
GUERRA Y PAZ
LEÓN TOLSTOI • 2016
El Nacimiento De La Tragedia
Friedrich Nietzche • 2019
Más allá del bien y del mal
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2022
Así habló Zaratustra
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2019
Emma: Jane Austen
Jane Austen • 2018
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."
Orlando Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf • 2016
