Name: Relatos para amantes de la lectura (in Spanish)
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portada Relatos para amantes de la lectura (in Spanish)

Relatos para amantes de la lectura (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Stefan Zweig

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga

Publisher

Editorial Alma

Year

2023

Language

Spanish

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21x15 cm

ISBN

9788418933844

ISBN13

9788418933844

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Relatos para amantes de la lectura (in Spanish)"

El amor por la lectura es el protagonista absoluto de esta antología. Los relatos que la componen están dirigidos a los amantes de los libros y las librerías, a quienes adoran el olor del papel.
En estas páginas encontraremos grandes firmas, como Virginia Woolf, Stefan Zweig o Katherine Mansfield y descubriremos otras como Zona Gale y Charles Chesnutt que nos regalan historias tiernas y empáticas, crueles y desencantadas, que nos muestran el poder evocador y universal de la lectura, la escritura y la creación.
Disfrutemos de esta inmersión literaria en el fascinante mundo de los libros, vistos a través de los ojos de sus creadores.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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Stefan Zweig

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(Vienna, 1881 – Petrópolis, Brazil, 1942) a very popular writer, both as an essayist and biographer as well as a novelist, he was one of the most versatile writers of the first half of the 20th century. His narrative ability, skill, and delicacy in describing feelings and the elegance of his style make him a fascinating storyteller. He was associated with the great authors of his time: Rilke, Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells, Tagore, among others. After several decades in which his works were inexplicably ignored, Zweig has been rediscovered and currently enjoys the prestige and popularity that literary justice demanded.

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