Vikram Seth Libri
20 giugno 1952
Vikram Seth è un narratore che scava nelle profondità delle vite e delle relazioni umane attraverso culture e continenti. La sua opera è caratterizzata da una franchezza insolita, in cui le narrazioni personali si intrecciano con sfondi sociali e storici più ampi. Seth ama esplorare temi di identità, famiglia e la ricerca del proprio posto nel mondo, impiegando uno stile che è al contempo coinvolgente e introspettivo. La sua produzione letteraria riflette spesso le sue esperienze e i suoi sentimenti vissuti, offrendo ai lettori uno sguardo intimo sul suo mondo interiore.
For the first time, the complete collected poems from the author of A SUITABLE BOY, 'The best writer of his generation' (THE TIMES)
Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse - in a beautifully illustrated new format
Three Chinese Poets
- 80pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
The three Chinese poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Wang Wei with his quiet love of nature and Buddhist philosophy; Li Bai, the Taoist spirit, with his wild, flamboyant paeans to wine and the moon; and Du Fu, with his Confucian sense of sympathy with the suffering of others in a time of civil war and collapse. These three poets of a single generation, responding differently to their common times, crystallise the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic tradition and, across a distance of twelve hundred years, move the reader as it is rare for even poetry to do.
Beastly Tales
- 144pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike
The classic Number One bestseller from award-winning author Vikram Seth.
`The perfect travel book' New Statesman Hitch-hiking, walking, slogging through rivers and across leech-ridden hills, Vikram Seth travelled through Sinkiang and Tibet to Nepal: from Heaven Lake to the Himalayas. By breaking away from the reliable routes of organised travel, he transformed his journey into an unusual and intriguing exploration of one of the world's least known areas. 'Vikram Seth is already the best writer of his generation' Daniel Johnson, The Tmes
La couv. indique : "The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer. They take us all over the world - from Chinese and Indian poetry to the beauty and quietness of the Salisbury house where the poet George Herbert lived and died. Spanning centuries of creativity and humanity, these poems pulse with life, energy and inspired brilliance. They are accompanied by four pieces of calligraphy by the author."
The golden gate
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Written in verse, this was Vikram Seth's first novel. Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of California's silicon valley, it is the story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.
