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Dacia Maraini che è stata una delle amiche più vicine a Pier Paolo Pasolini, in queste pagine intesse un dialogo intimo e sincero capace di prolungare e ravvivare un affetto profondo, nutrito di stima, esperienze artistiche e cinematografiche, idee e viaggi. Maraini costruisce questa confessione delicata come una corrispondenza senza tempo, in cui tutto è presente e vivo. Una voce necessaria per capire oggi chi è stato davvero uno degli uomini che hanno fatto la storia della cultura del Novecento.

The Diary of a Curious Mind Volume II continues the subconscious search for purpose in life. As alluded to in the Volume I analysis of Jacob, Esau, and Cain, the pursuit of freedom weaves its way into every journal entry and leads every listener to follow their own imaginative possibilities.

History cannot be relived, but thanks to a tradition that spans millennia, we can revisit it in the letters of the people who influenced or witnessed the moments it changed forever. In Written In History, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects some of the greatest letters ever written from ancient times to the 20th century: declarations of war, petitions for peace, diplomatic entanglements, steamy love letters and beyond.

July 13, 1938: The renowned nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, approaching the age of 60, sits on the train that will take her to the German-Dutch border and then to the safety of exile in Sweden. After months of uncertainty and fear, as a Jew in Nazi Germany, she has abandoned everything: her friends, her career, and her beloved adopted home, the city of Berlin, where she had become a pioneer in the world of nuclear physics.

This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of East of Eden, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects - textual discussion, trial flights of workmanship, family matters - provide an illuminating perspective on Steinbeck, the creative genius, and a private glimpse of Steinbeck, the man.

At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, everyone realized that it was just a matter of time before they would lose. In between was El Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese retreat in New Guinea, and the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. It may have been the most important month of the 20th century. In this riveting historical marvel, Peter Englund has reduced an epoch-making event to its basic component: the individual experience.

Bölls berühmter Reisebericht ruft auf plastische Weise ein Irland wach, wie es Ende der fünfziger Jahre des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts gewesen ist, als die Insel noch eines der ärmsten und rückständigsten Länder Westeuropas war. Auch wenn sich seither natürlich viel gewandelt hat, liefern Bölls liebevolle, genau beobachtete und außerordentlich treffende Stimmungsbilder aus dem irischen Alltag auch heute noch eine Art vertieften Einblick in die unverändert gebliebene "Seele" Irlands.

It’s morning at Meadow Brook Nursing Home. During the last 10 months, this has been my mother’s abode. Most days, I feel it is mine, too. Life, as I have known it, is a blur. Alzheimer’s has taken mother from herself, her family, and her friends. It has demanded a grit and grace in our everyday lives beyond human comprehension. I know that I must tell her story - which ultimately is my story, too - with hope that it may bring a degree of peace to the hearts of those who have walked, or will walk, the same road.

A fascinating new volume of messages about fatherhood, from the author of the best-selling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring.

Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1771, being one year younger than her brother William. After their mother died in 1778, they were separated and did not return to the Lake District until 1794, when they spent two happy months walking around the hills near Keswick, eventually settling down at Grasmere in 1799. The journals that Dorothy kept are remarkable for the detailed observations she makes of the surrounding countryside and people, often providing glimpses of poverty and suffering, as well as displaying her complete love affair with nature.

Zweig est vraiment le fils que Freud aurait aimé avoir : Il apprécie en lui sa "modestie intérieure" tout en étant séduit par l'écrivain, si proche à bien des égards d'Arthur Schnitzler qu'il considérait comme son "frère jumeau" (Roland Jaccard). Pendant trente ans, Freud et Zweig vont échanger des lettres dans lesquelles percent l'admiration, et même une certaine affection, qu'ils ont l'un pour l'autre.

Escrito en la historia conmemora las mayores y más importantes cartas del panorama político, cultural, artístico, o de la vida privada de aquellos personajes célebres que influyeron en el devenir de nuestra historia.

Ein Buch über das Reisen in einer Zeit ohne festen Wohnsitz: Mithilfe von tagebuchartigen Notizen, die sich Handke während seiner Nomaden-Zeit zwischen November 1987 und Juli 1990 machte, lässt er sein Treiben durch Jugoslawien, Griechenland, Ägypten, durch ganz Europa bis nach Japan und mehrfach in den slowenischen Karst wiederaufleben. Dabei sind es nicht nur die physischen Reisen, sondern auch die mentalen, an denen Handke den Leser teilhaben lässt.

Editor in chief Alexandra Shulman kept a diary of British Vogue's centenary year. And what a year. She reveals the emotional and logistical minefield of producing the 100th anniversary issue (that Duchess of Cambridge cover surprise), organising the star-studded Vogue 100 Gala and working with designers from Victoria Beckham to Karl Lagerfeld and contributors from David Bailey to Alexa Chung, all under the continual scrutiny of a television documentary crew.

Ne crois pas, ne crois pas, Alfred, que je puisse être heureuse avec la pensée d'avoir perdu ton cœur. Que j'aie été ta maîtresse ou ta mère, peu importe. Que je t'aie inspiré de l'amour ou de l'amitié ; que j'aie été heureuse ou malheureuse avec toi, tout cela ne change rien à l'état de mon âme à présent. Je sais que je t'aime et c'est tout. Veiller sur toi, te préserver de tout mal, de toute contrariété, t'entourer de distractions et de plaisirs, voilà tout le besoin et le regret que je sens depuis que je t'ai perdu. George Sand à Alfred de Musset, Venise, le 15 avril 1834

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll—with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong—there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?

Paula Modersohn-Becker war eine deutsche Malerin und eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen des frühen Expressionismus. Im dritten Teil ihrer Biefe und Tagebuchblätter hören Sie die Briefe, Tagebuchblätter, Gedichte und das Märchen "Du" Paula Modersohn-Beckers des Jahres 1898. Gelesen von Johanna Mette Pollet.

"Questions are posed," writes Norman Mailer, "in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions." In this series of conversations, John Buffalo Mailer, 27, poses a series of questions to his father, challenging the reflections and insights of the man who has dominated and defined much of American letters for the past sixty years.

Quiero escribirte esta noche una carta de amor», escribe Katherine Mansfield al amante que más tarde se convertiría en su marido. A través de sus cartas, inéditas hasta ahora en español -al igual que muchas otras que recoge este libro-, su voz más íntima se une a la de otras grandes escritoras que sintieron la urgencia de revelar lo inconfesable, el poder del deseo, la insoportable incertidumbre, la desesperación, el dolor de una pasión no correspondida o la inmensa felicidad de amar y ser amado.

Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod’s years-long endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre.