Peter Gay Libros

Por que Schnitzler? Aunque no era precisamente el burgues arquetipico de la sociedad de su tiempo, Schnitzler, como comenta Gay en el prefacio, "tenia cualidades que hacian de el un testigo habil y creible del mundo de la clase media," una clase cuyo auge se retrata en el libro. Asi pues, Schnitzler se convierte en "una especie de maestro de ceremonias," una figura historica que sirve de estimulo para profundizar en la historia cultural y de costumbres del siglo XIX, tanto por la dificil relacion que mantuvo con sus padres como por sus obsesiones sexuales, sus aventuras amorosas y sus perturbadoras neurosis.Peter Gay es profesor de Historia de la Universidad de Yale y, desde 1997, director del Center for Scholars and Writers de la New York Public Library. Entre sus muchas obras se cuentan Freud: una vida de nuestro tiempo, tambien publicada por Paidos, y La edad de las luces, cuyo primer volumen gano el National Book Award. Prolifico historiador de la cultura, Gay reparte su tiempo entre Hamden (Connecticut) y la ciudad de Nueva York.

Decir que Peter Gay hace un retrato de Mozart resulta manido para ser uno de los últimos libros del autor. Refleja la sabiduría de otras biografías y Gay, sin darle más importancia al anecdotario, consigue engachar al lector en la trama, sin ser una novela y dando los justos detalles técnicos sobre composición e interpretación musical. ¿La mezcla perfecta?

Peter Gay explores three literary masterpieces—Dickens's "Bleak House," Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," and Mann's "Buddenbrooks"—to reveal that novels offer more than historical truth. He examines the authors' craftsmanship and shared resentment towards society, showcasing their writing as a form of revenge within the Western literary canon.

Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.

Gay presents a series of essays ranging from reflections on Freud and Shakespeare to Gay's controversial spoof review of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.

A biography and study of the psychoanalyst's career, family, personal life, and professional struggles.

Set against a backdrop of shifting societal norms, the book delves into a pivotal era when the lines between erotic expression and restraint began to blur, reshaping the nature of love. It combines meticulous research with a lyrical writing style, offering insights into the complexities of Victorian relationships, both fictional and real. The author’s ability to weave together historical context and personal experiences creates a compelling narrative that captures the essence of the "tender passion" during this transformative time.

Introduction by Peter Gay Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche’s most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume also features seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche’s correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo. It is a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche’s thought. Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide