Essay genre books (152)
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Despre frumuseţea uitată a vieţii by Andrei Pleşu RO
RomaniaDescription:
„Dacă îţi acorzi un cât de mic răgaz, dacă arunci, de jur împrejur, o privire odihnită, curioasă şi nepătimaşă, vei găsi destule argumente să te bucuri. Lucrurile (încă) funcţionează. Şarpanta lumii (încă) ţine. Mai există încă oameni întregi, tradiţii vii, întâlniri miraculoase. Trăim într-un sos toxic, dar el conţine încă mirodenii subtile, cu efect anesteziant. Marele animal cosmic nu pare încă să ia în serios agitaţia noastră propagandistică, spaimele noastre apocaliptice. Se poate trăi. Se poate trăi bine.... continue
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Die Freiheit, frei zu sein by Hannah Arendt DE
GermanyDescription:
»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.« Was ist Freiheit, und was bedeutet sie uns? Begreifen wir sie nur als die Abwesenheit von Furcht und von Zwängen, oder meint Freiheit nicht vielmehr auch, sich an gesellschaftlichen Prozessen zu beteiligen, eine eigene politische Stimme zu haben, um von anderen gehört, erkannt und schließlich erinnert zu werden? Und: Haben wir diese Freiheit einfach, oder wer gibt sie uns, und kann man sie uns auch wieder wegnehmen? In diesem bisher auf Deutsch unveröffentlichten Essay zeichnet Hannah Arendt die historische Entwicklung des ... continue
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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays by Tania De Rozario EN
SingaporeDescription:
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different. Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to "banish the evil" from Tania. That day, the young girl realiz... continue
Trinidad and Tobago45.
Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine EN
Country: North America / 
Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter. The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric, the essay, and the visual in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is cont... continue
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El lenguaje de la pasión by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
Resumen: es una seleccion de los articulos que, en su columna Piedra de Toque, Mario Vargas LLosa publico en el diario el Pais entre los anos 1992 y 2000. En ellos nos ofrece su vision y analisis de la convulsa sociedad de fin de siglo abordando temas como la despenalizacion del aborto en Espana, los problemas derivados de la emigracion o sucesos como el presidio de Nelson Mandela en Robben Island. Es un libro que aporta claves significativas para entender la complejidad de nuestro tiempo.
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Embers : One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on--and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits drop away. It's a good way to travel; eventually I will wear away all resistance until all there is left of me is light. I can live towards that end." --Richard Wagamese, Embers In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese... continue
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Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre FR
FranceDescription:
This book presents a new English translation of two seminal works by Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominant European intellectual of the post-World War II decades. The volume includes Sartre's 1945 lecture “Existentialism Is a Humanism” and his analysis of Camus's The Stranger, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre's introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture. In her foreword, intended for an American audience, acclaimed Sartre biographer Anni... continue
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Fallar otra vez by Alan Pauls ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Un ensayo a favor de la escritura imperfecta — y una lúcida reflexión sobre la desobediencia narrativa como origen de la literatura.
Prólogo de Julián Herbert.