Richard Howard Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Pubblicate dapprima in varie riviste e poi riunite, per la prima volta, in un volume che vide la luce nel 1857, le poesie "I fiori del male" provocarono immediatamente un enorme scandalo, tanto da indurre l'autorità a incriminare l'autore e a metterlo sotto processo per offesa alla morale. Frutto in realtà di un'arte sapiente e sottile, difficile e raffinata, la potenza evocativa, la profondità tragica e l'apparente cinismo della poesia di Baudelaire potevano infatti apparire un atto oltraggioso e deliberato nei confronti del gusto convenzionale della maggioranza dei lettori del suo tempo, decisamente spiazzati davanti all'arditezza di certe descrizioni e all'ostentazione di macabre perversioni che punteggiavano l'opera. Ben lungi dal rappresentare una semplice provocazione, le composizioni poetiche di Baudelaire, con la loro impietosa opera di scavo nell'animo umano, gettavano invece per la prima volta una luce vivissima fin negli angoli più tenebrosi dello spirito, rivelando il capolavoro di una scrittura passionale e intensa, destinata a rivoluzionare l'essenza stessa della letteratura poetica.

Druhá sbírka kreslených vtipů pražského kreslíře Pavla Raka. Stejně jako v první publikaci jsou všechny vtipy s českým textem opatřeny třemi překlady: do angličtiny, němčiny a esperanta.

Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the noveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is then turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin.Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality, The Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pull us along to its ominous conclusion.

Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.

La versione integrale del capolavoro di Antoine de Saint-Exupery finalmente in una nuova traduzione in italiano semplice e moderno, con testo francese originale a fronte e gli audiolibri Mp3 in italiano e in francese. Si e cercato di mantenere la musicalita e la bellezza del testo francese, restando il piu possibile fedeli alla struttura originale del libro, impreziosito dalle splendide illustrazioni dell'autore presenti nella prima edizione del 1943. Il Piccolo Principe e una storia bellissima e profonda, commovente nella sua semplicita. E uno dei libri piu belli che siano mai stati scritti e rappresenta una lettura essenziale, che e anche una lezione di vita, per grandi e piccini. In questa nuova edizione bilingue italiano-francese, la lettura e facilitata dalla disposizione in colonne, nella stessa pagina, del testo originale e della traduzione. E possibile scaricare gratuitamente l'audiolibro in lingua italiana e l'audiolibro in lingua francese seguendo le istruzioni riportate nell'ultima pagina."

Bouřlivá léta Francouzské revoluce 1795. Oklamaná pařížská lůza vyhrála válku slov s Radou, novým orgánem moci, ale šestiletá válka o chléb a demokracii končí na ulici a pod gilotinou. V zoufalé snaze zachránit italské tažení se Rada, ovlivňována mladým Napoleonem Bonapartem, rozhodne odvést do armády i odsouzené zločince. V bezedných hloubkách pařížských věznic - mezi vrahy, zloději a násilníky - trpí rovněž muži jako Alain Lausard. Tento šlechtic, donucený po masakru své rodiny žít jako rolník, se podobně jako tisíce jiných ocitne během revoluční hysterie ve vězení. Pro muže odsouzené na smrt je příchod svobody nečekaným, ale zrádným lákadlem. Lausard však pojímá vidinu svobody jinak. Jako absolvent vojenské školy si u svých svěřenců postupně získá respekt, který mu umožní přeměnit otrhanou masu darebáků v nemilosrdnou kavalérii, ta se stane hlavní zbraní v Napoleonově tažení do Piemontu a severní Itálie. Série překvapivých vítězství vede k porážce rakouské armády a Lausard se stane hrdinou. Přesto uvnitř jeho jednotky stále vře skrytá zloba a neposlušnost. Když se oddíl dostane pod vedení despotického Cezara, nebezpečná výprava za nepřátelské linie hrozí zvrátit křehkou rovnováhu až na pokraj anarchie ...

Sedmnáct tisíc francouzských vojáků opustilo v květnu 1798 přístav Toulon, aniž by tušili, k jakému cíli směřuje jejich cesta. Sotva tři měsíce po dobytí Říma odměnil Bonaparte nejlepší oddíly tohoto tažení zařazením do Orientální armády, elitních invazních jednotek, určených k útoku na Egypt. Pro muže, kteří nastoupili na palubu lodi, však první bitva začala již bojem s útrapami pobytu na moři. Když nespokojení příslušníci jednotky Alaina Lausarda - jednotky jízdy, která byla před třemi lety vytvořena z trestanců odsouzených k smrti - obrátí svoji frustraci proti posádce fregaty L´Esperance a pěšákům, drsná pouť si začíná vybírat své první oběti. Než se hladoví a vyčerpaní vypotácejí na břehy Egypta, musí Lausardovi dragouni bojovat za víc než slávu a vítězství. Zubožení vojáci se trmácejí rozpálenou pouští a Bonaparte může jen přihlížet, jak se jeho taktická hra hroutí jako domek z karet. Sežehlí žhnoucím sluncem dokážou ještě zoufale odolávat nájezdům Arabů, bránících jim v přístupu k Nilu, ale jak jsou vtahováni stále hloub a hloub do neznámých končin, jejich řad se zmocňuje beznaděj. Šíří se jako nemoc. Mamelukova armáda sice podlehne v boji ve stínu pyramid, ale Nelson drtivě poráží Bonapartovu flotilu. A Bonapartova posedlost válkou ... Lausard už ztratil naději, že ještě někdy uvidí Paříž.

These diaries by Ned Rorem, written in Paris and New York, marked the beginnings of Gay Liberation, not because he made a special issue of his sexuality, but because he did not. Rather, he wrote of his affairs frankly and unashamedly.

These late essays of Roland Barthes's are concerned with the visible and the audible, and here the preoccupations are particularly intense and rewarding, in part because Barthes was himself, by predilection, an artist and a musician, and in part because he was of two minds about the very possibility of attaching to art and to music a written text, a criticism.

In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine―the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion―Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don't calculate; if clothing's producers and consumers had the same consciousness, clothing would be bought (and produced) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation."

Considered by Gide as his most significant work, this elegantly crafted volume comprises four dialogues exploring homosexuality and its societal implications. Initially published anonymously in parts between 1911 and 1920, it appeared in a signed edition in France in 1924 and in the U.S. in 1950, shortly before Gide's death. This edition features a masterful translation by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard. Engaging in spirited dialogue with a prejudiced interviewer, the protagonist, Corydon, presents evidence from naturalists, historians, poets, and philosophers to argue that homosexuality has been integral to the most culturally advanced societies, from ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy and England. Despite later critical obscurity, literature and art from Homer to Titian reveal the true nature of relationships among figures like Achilles and Patroclus, as well as Virgil's Corydon and his shepherd, Alexis. Corydon posits that heterosexuality is a socially constructed union, while the more fundamental and natural connection is homosexual. Gide noted that his friends believed this work could harm his reputation. In these pages, modern readers will discover a bold and insightful examination of a topic that remains contentious today.

'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington Post The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. Reviving the notion of the amorous subject beyond psychological or clinical enterprises, Barthes' A Lover's Discourse is a book for everyone who has ever been in love, or indeed, thought themselves to be immune to its power.