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Siddartha
Hermann Hesse

Dónde estás, mundo bello
Sally Rooney · 2021
La historia de dos amigas que buscan el amor y la belleza ante un mundo incierto. La nueva novela de la aclamada autora de Gente normal. «El fenómeno literario de la década.» The Guardian «La mejor novela publicada este año.» The Times «Literatura en mayúsculas.» El País Dos amigas se acercan a la treintena en ciudades distintas y tras mucho tiempo sin verse. Alice, novelista, conoce a Felix, que trabaja en un almacén, y le pide que la acompañe a Roma para promocionar su último libro. En Dublín, su mejor amiga, Eileen, está superando una ruptura y empieza a flirtear con Simon, un chico al que conoce desde que eran niños. Mientras el verano se acerca, las dos chicas se envían correos electrónicos en los que se ponen al día. Hablan de su amistad, de sus relaciones, de arte, literatura y de un futuro cada vez más incierto. Dicen que quieren verse pronto, pero ¿qué pasará cuando lo hagan? Alice, Felix, Eileen y Simon todavía son jóvenes, pero pronto dejarán de serlo. Se juntan y se separan, se desean y se mienten. Tienen sexo, sufren por amor, por sus amistades y por el mundo en el que viven. ¿Están en la última sala iluminada antes de la oscuridad? ¿Encontrarán una manera de creer en un mundo bello? Rooney despliega de nuevo su capacidad para analizar el comportamiento humano y vuelve a demostrar por qué es una de las autoras más importantes del momento en una novela que busca la belleza en los claroscuros de la amistad y en el porvenir incierto de nuestro planeta. Reseñas: «Dueña de una prosa adictiva, las novelas de Sally Rooney nos confrontan con ese pozo de soledad en que se han convertido las relaciones humanas en la época moderna.» Fernanda Melchor «Ser honesta es una de sus grandes armas porque permite que se aprecie mejor lo que desde el principio ha sabido hacer muy bien: esa capacidad de observación de lo íntimo, esa naturalidad para plasmar lo cotidiano y dotarlo de vida, ese manejo del ritmo narrativo sin apenas desfallecimientos, esa facilidad para moldear personajes parecidos, pero sutilmente diferentes.» Juan Trejo, Revista Kopek «Es la reinventora de la novela de amor decimonónica en la era de la hiperconectividad.» Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, El País Semanal «La autora irlandesa, con permiso de Maggie O'Farrell, con más proyección de la historia.» Vanity Fair Sobre Gente normal : «Los mejores diálogos que hayamos leído nunca.» The New Yorker «Una historia de amor cercana, honesta y pura.» Isabel Coixet «Una novela preciosa sobre las innumerables formas en que hombres y mujeres intentan entenderse y cómo fracasan constantemente.» The Guardian «Mi escritora favorita.» Lena Dunham

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."

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.

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2013
The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. With the author's own 1831 introduction.

Circe
Madeline Miller · 2020
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times bestseller -- named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, BuzzFeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider

Queer
William S. Burroughs · 2022
<p><b>“A major work, Burroughs’s heart laid bare, the origin of his writing”—Allen Ginsberg</b></p><p><b>The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, now adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig</b></p><p>Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, <i>Queer</i> is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs’s only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, <i>Naked Lunch</i>.</p><p>Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, <i>Queer</i> follows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs’s debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest.</p><p>Now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of <i>Queer</i> features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.</p>

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 2012
Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1953.

Orgullo y prejuicio
Jane Austen · 2015
«Si la auténtica prueba para juzgar la calidad de una novela es la relectura, y los placeres que aporta la relectura, entonces Orgullo y prejuicio supera cualquier novela jamás escrita», Harold Bloom

MUJERCITAS
Alcott,Louisa May · 2019

El extranjero
Albert Camus · 1971
Guía moral e intelectual de la generación llegada a la madurez entre las ruinas, la frustración y la desesperanza de la Europa de postguerra, Albert Camus (1913-1960) saltó a la fama con la publicación, en 1942, de EL EXTRANJERO. La novela -lúcida descripción de la carencia de valores del mundo contemporáneo- tiene como referencia omnipresente a Meursault, su protagonista, a quien una serie de circunstancias conduce a cometer un crimen aparentemente inmotivado; su muerte en el patíbulo no tendrá más sentido que su vida, corroída por la cotidianidad y gobernada por fuerzas anónimas que, al despojar a los hombres de la condición de sujetos autónomos, les eximen también de responsabilidad y de culpa.

The Complete Poems
Walt Whitman · 2004

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 2023

El jilguero
Donna Tartt · 2014

Cumbres borrascosas
Emily BRONTË · 2004

Metamorfosis
Franza Kafka · 2014

La peste
Albert Camus · 2002
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