Colm Tóibín Libros

¿Quién dijo que todas las familias felices, o que lo parecen, son iguales? Toibin tiene su propia opinión al respecto. Colm Toibín aborda en este libro inclasificable, a caballo entre el ensayo y la narración, la siempre problemática y jugosa relación de los escritores y sus familias. Con una asombrosa perspicacia psicológica, con fino sentido del humor, lucidez crítica y contagioso fervor, reconstruye, entre otras, la historia de W. B. Yeats con su padre, la terrible paternidad de Thomas Mann o el tortuoso matrimonio de John Cheever. En piezas que tratan de la importancia de las parientes pobres o la muerte de los padres en la novela del XIX, hasta la perversa vinculación entre una generación y otra, Toibín nos habla de algo muy próximo, íntimo, pero acaba celebrando el poder y el misterio de la gran literatura. Divertido, hondo y sagaz, Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madre muestra una vez más el talento de uno de los grandes escritores de la actual literatura anglosajona.

Situada en la Irlanda de finales del siglo XX, esta novela nos relata la historia de la familia Deveroux. Tras varios años sin apenas dirigirse la palabra, las tres protagonistas de esta novela, Dora, su hija Lily y su nieta Helen, se ven obligadas a desnudar sus almas cuando Declan, el hermano de Helen, les pide que le acompañen en los días que le pueda conceder aún el sida. La sensibilidad y la naturalidad con se que desarrolla la trama hacen de esta novela una lectura fascinante y de gran interés humano. Una novela intensa sobre las costumbres y la moral y sobre los conflictos culturales, generacionales y personales. Esta novela fue elegida como uno de los libros más importantes del año por el "New York Times y fue finalista del premio Booker, lo que le valió al autor el elogio de la crítica y de algunos de los más importantes escritores como, Don DeLillo, Michael Cunningham, David Lodge...

Capitães da Areia é o livro de Jorge Amado mais vendido no mundo inteiro. Publicado em 1937, teve a sua primeira edição apreendida e queimada em praça pública pelas autoridades do Estado Novo. Em 1944 conheceu nova edição e desde então sucederam-se as edições nacionais e estrangeiras, e as adaptações para a rádio, televisão e cinema. Jorge Amado descreve, em páginas carregadas de grande beleza, dramatismo e lirismo poucas vezes igualados na literatura universal, a vida dos meninos abandonados nas ruas de São Salvador da Bahia. Dividido em três partes, o livro atinge um clímax inesquecível no capítulo .Canção da Bahía, Canção da Liberdade., em que é narrada a emocionante despedida de um dos personagens da história, que se afasta dos seus queridos Capitães da Areia .na noite misteriosa das macumbas, enquanto os atabaques ressoam como clarins de guerra.

From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.

Six writers - Bernard Loughlin, Colm Toibin, Michael Finlan, Rosita Boland, George O'Brien and Sean Dunne - have combined to produce a book which offers both a guide to the sites and sights of Ireland and a collection of photographs of its monuments and moods. Each of the contributors takes readers on a tour of one region, illuminating the landscape, the towns, the coastline, the rivers and the lochs. They introduce the history and the mystery, the heroes of hurling and the poets, and the life of the Ireland of today as it reflects the past.

Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

A collection of short stories that explores the complex relationships between mothers and their sons.

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction. The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self.

In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Tóibín walked along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape. Tóibín describes the rituals – the marches, the funerals, the demonstrations – observed by both communities along the border, and listens to the stories which haunt both sides. With sympathy and insight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of the most dangerous strips of land in Western Europe.

This list of 194 books published since 1950 represent titles considered the best by the compilers. There are familiar names - Naipaul, Updike , Bellow and Nabokov - and more surprising ones such as Mario Puzo and Thomas Harris.

A love story full of honesty and truth, Colm Toibin portrays a difficult relationship during dark times.

A &i;>Times&/i> and &i;>Sunday Times&/i> Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, &i;>Brooklyn&/i>

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity. Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century. ___________________________________ 'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized' - Richard Ford 'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Tóibín . . . reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer' - Garth Greenwell 'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' - Katharina Volckmer

Tóibín's first novel 'The South', set in Spain and rural Ireland features Katherine Proctor, a painter on the run from a broken marriage. When love in Spain sours she returns to Ireland for refuge with a new found passion for painting.

“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. With stunningly resonant prose, “The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful” (The New York Times Book Review). The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.

Set in Ireland, the public figure of an elderley High Court judge, and the terrible deaths of childhood.

In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at 1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.Colm Toibin's 'The Use of Reason' is one of the short stories that will published in his new collection, Mothers and Sons, this autumn. The Irish connection is the story of a small time criminal who finds himself in too deep by stealing not just cash or jewellery - easy to take, easy to get rid of quickly - but four extremely valuable paintings. How do you quickly get rid of a Rembrandt, Gainborough and two Guardis without getting caught, particularly in the climate of 1980's Dublin where you are being watched at all times. Can he trust the two clean-cut Dutchmen who have come to do a deal? Can he trust his friends, his partners in crime, indeed his mother...?

Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.

In 'Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know', the author turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers.

In Love in a Dark Time Colm Toibin looks at the lives and works of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodvar, born nearly one hundred years later. Toibin studies how a changing world impacted the lives of people who, on the whole, kept their homosexuality hidden, and reveals that the laws of desire changed everything for them, both in their private lives and in the spirit of their work.

It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself. As Nora returns to memories of the happiness of her early marriage, something more painful begins to intrude: memories of her own mother and what brought about the terrifying distance between them.

In the stories that make up this book, Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history."

In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, 'The Testament of Mary' tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death.

The hotel has stood on Dublin's quays since the 1920s, but its glory days are over. Most of the guests and staff we meet are escaping from something. Their stories are told in different chapters by seven Irish writers, including Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Colm Toibin.

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.' On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act. House of Names is a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers.

Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.

This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as `the greatest living Irishwoman' - Augusta Gregory. schovat popis

This title is a personal and carefully researched account of Barcelona, from its founding to its huge growth in the 19th century. The author covers the city's history, art and architecture, great churches and museums, cafes and much more.

"When Ellis gets a job in Brooklyn, New York, she leaves her family in Ireland to travel to a new country.... When she meets someon special, Ellis must choose between her past and her future"--Back cover.

With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of Kapow!, Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literature—twelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining new twists and textures each time, just as you'd expect a Kierkegaard story brought into English by Clancy Martin and then sent into Dutch by Cees Nooteboom before being made into English again by J. M. Coetzee to do. With original texts by Kafka and Kharms and Kenji Miyazawa, and translations by Lydia Davis and David Mitchell and Zadie Smith (along with others by John Banville and Tom McCarthy and Javier Marías, and even more by Shteyngart and Eugenides and A. S. Byatt), this will be an issue unlike anything you've seen before—altered, echoing narratives in the hands of the finest writers of our time, brought to you in a book that looks like nothing else we’ve ever done.

Diese Sammlung enthält folgende Geschichten: An Occasion of Sin von John Montague Journey Home von Maeve Kelly The Lady with the Red Shoes von Ita Daly High Ground von John McGahern Five Notes after a Visit von Anne Devlin Prisoner of the Republic von Séan MacMathúna A Song von Colm Tóibín New Boy von Roddy Doyle Abiturempfehlung zum Themenbereich Ireland

A definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde’s best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter “De Profundis” to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while in prison. Editor Colm Toibin, the acclaimed author of The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, and Brooklyn, describes it as Wilde’s “greatest piece of prose writing.” Also included is “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” Wilde’s most famous poem and one of the greatest ballads in the English language, as well as other letters Wilde wrote from prison that reveal the true effects of incarceration on the people he met. Based on the Penguin Classics edition of the Complete Letters, this collection features a new introduction, notes, and appendices. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened, while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy.

Zehn Autorinnen und Autoren aus sieben Ländern erforschten auf Einladung des Heidelberger Deutsch-Amerikanischen Instituts als literarische Kundschafter die Welt der (Natur)Wissenschaften. Ihre »Mission«: Antworten zu finden auf die Frage, ob es heute die Wissenschaften sind - und nicht länger die Religion -, die dem Menschen Orientierung bieten in einer Zeit immenser Beschleunigung, gravierender Veränderungen und drängender globaler Aufgaben. Leben die großen Fragen der Menschheit heute in den Wissenschaften fort, die einst unter dem Dach von Metaphysik und Religion ihren Anfang nahmen? Entsprechend der ganz unterschiedlichen Erfahrungs- und Temperamentswelten der Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller sind Texte - Erzählungen, Reportagen, Essays - entstanden, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten.