Henry Gifford Libros

"Guerra y paz" se centra en la invasión de Rusia por Napoleón en 1812 y sigue a tres de los personajes más conocidos de la literatura: Pierre Bezukhov, el hijo ilegítimo de un conde que lucha por su herencia y anhela la realización espiritual; el príncipe Andrei Bolkonsky, quien deja atrás a su familia para combatir en la guerra contra Napoleón; y Natasha Rostov, la hermosa hija de un noble, que intriga a ambos hombres. A medida que el ejército de Napoleón invade, Tolstói sigue vívidamente a personajes de diversos orígenes—campesinos y nobles, civiles y soldados—mientras lidian con los problemas únicos de su época, su historia y su cultura. Con el avance de la novela, estos personajes trascienden su especificidad, convirtiéndose en algunas de las figuras más conmovedoras y humanas de la literatura mundial.

The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only. Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay, he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. This edition also includes the companion piece, “Conversation About Dante,” which Seamus Heaney called “Osip Mandelstam’s astonishing fantasia on poetic creation.” An incomparable apologia for poetic freedom and a challenge to the Bolshevik establishment, the essay was dictated by the poet to his wife, Nadezhda Mandelstam, in 1934 and 1935, during the last phase of his itinerant life. It has close ties to Journey to Armenia.