Emanuel's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:03:19 -0800 60 Emanuel's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier 34802642 The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this novel bridges the two series, and takes you deeper into the mysteries raised by the new series.

The return of Twin Peaks this May is one of the most anticipated events in the history of television. The subject of endless speculation, shrouded in mystery, fans will come flocking to see Mark Frost and David Lynch's inimitable vision once again grace the screen. Featuring all the characters we know and love from the first series, as well as a list of high-powered actors in new roles, the show will be endlessly debated, discussed, and dissected.

While The Secret History of Twin Peaks served to expand the mysteries of the town and place the unexplained phenomena that unfolded there into a vastly layered, wide-ranging history, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier tells us what happened to key characters in the twenty-five years in between the events of the first series and the second, offering details and insights fans will be clamoring for. The novel also adds context and commentary to the strange and cosmic happenings of the new series. For fans around the world begging for more, Mark Frost's final take laid out in this novel will be required listening.]]> 145 Mark Frost 1250163307 Emanuel 0 currently-reading 3.87 2017 Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
author: Mark Frost
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel]]> 28186169
Welcome to Soft City. Now don’t be late for work.

This NYRC edition is a giant-sized hardcover extra-thick paper and spot-color throughout.]]> 160 Hariton Pushwagner 1681370468 Emanuel 4 4.16 2009 Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel
author: Hariton Pushwagner
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> In. 58237288 A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's journey from performing his life to truly connecting with people

Nick, a young illustrator, can’t shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. He haunts lookalike fussy, silly, coffee shops, listens to old Joni Mitchell albums too loudly, and stares at his navel in the hope that he will find it in there. But it isn’t until he learns to speak from the heart that he begins to find authentic human connections and is let in—to the worlds of the people he meets. Nick’s journey occurs alongside the beginnings of a relationship with Wren, a wry, spirited oncologist at a nearby hospital, whose work and life becomes painfully tangled with Nick’s.

Illustrated in both color and black-and-white in McPhail’s instantly recognizable style, In elevates the graphic novel genre; it captures his trademark humor and compassion with a semi-autobiographical tale that is equal parts hilarious and heart-wrenching—uncannily appropriate for our isolated times.]]> 268 Will McPhail 1529316111 Emanuel 5 4.46 2021 In.
author: Will McPhail
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.46
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rating: 5
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]]> Pablo (Pablo, #1-4) 23167772
with poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, the painter Georges Braque, and his great rival Henri Matisse. Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie depict a career that began in poverty and reached its climax with the advent of cubism and modern art.]]> 344 Julie Birmant 1906838941 Emanuel 5 3.60 2015 Pablo (Pablo, #1-4)
author: Julie Birmant
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> Upgrade Soul 39279780
In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what shapes our identity-Is it the capability of our minds or the physicality of our bodies? Is a newer, better version of yourself still you? This page-turning graphic novel follows the lives of Hank and Molly as they discover the harsh truths.]]> 272 Ezra Claytan Daniels 1549302922 Emanuel 4 4.09 2018 Upgrade Soul
author: Ezra Claytan Daniels
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity]]> 58169 Where do ideas come from?

In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch provides a rare window into his methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

Lynch describes the experience of "diving within" and "catching" ideas like fish - and then preparing them for television or movie screens, and other mediums in which he works, such as painting, music, and design. Lynch writes for the first time about his more than three-decade commitment to Transcendental Meditation and the difference it has made in his creative process.

In brief chapters, Lynch explains the development of his ideas - where they came from, how he grasps them, and which ones appeal to him the most. He specifically discusses how he puts his thoughts into action and how he engages with others around him. Finally, he considers the self and the surrounding world - and how the process of "diving within" that has so deeply affected his own work can directly benefit others.

Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally intriguing to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.]]> 181 David Lynch 1585425400 Emanuel 2 3.78 2006 Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
author: David Lynch
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.78
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands]]> 59069071 Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada.

Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beatons, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. After university, Beaton heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush, part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, what the journey will actually cost Beaton will be far more than she anticipates.

Arriving in Fort McMurray, Beaton finds work in the lucrative camps owned and operated by the world’s largest oil companies. Being one of the few women among thousands of men, the culture shock is palpable. It does not hit home until she moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay. She encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet never discussed. Her wounds may never heal.

Beaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, Northern Lights, and Rocky Mountains. Her first full-length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.]]> 430 Kate Beaton 1770462899 Emanuel 5 4.41 2022 Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
author: Kate Beaton
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.41
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rating: 5
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]]> ±á´Ç°ù°ù´Ç°ù²õ³Ùö°ù 13129925
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.

A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, ±á´Ç°ù°ù´Ç°ù²õ³Ùö°ù is designed to retain its luster and natural appearance for a lifetime of use. Pleasingly proportioned with generous French flaps and a softcover binding, ±á´Ç°ù°ù´Ç°ù²õ³Ùö°ù delivers the psychological terror you need in the elegant package you deserve.

Designed by Andie Reid, cover photography by Christine Ferrara.]]> 248 Grady Hendrix 1594745269 Emanuel 2 3.64 2014 ±á´Ç°ù°ù´Ç°ù²õ³Ùö°ù
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2014
rating: 2
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Meh, not for me. La sub trama política es demasiado obvia y la imaginería gore no me atrapó para nada.
]]> <![CDATA[The Creative Act: A Way of Being]]> 60965426 From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.

"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment." --Anne Lamott

"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Rick Rubin

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments--and lifetimes--of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.]]> 406 Rick Rubin 0593652886 Emanuel 2
Some good nuggets of "common" wisdom (obvious things well put). Some nice thoughts and reflections but ultimately way too generic and commonsensical. ]]> 4.00 2023 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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2.5 stars

Some good nuggets of "common" wisdom (obvious things well put). Some nice thoughts and reflections but ultimately way too generic and commonsensical.
]]> Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero 29875876 A Johnson has his Boswell and every Sticks Angelica has her Michael DeForge

Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, �49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist.� After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbors an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross-dressing moose absurdly named Lisa Hanawalt. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography.]]> 96 Michael DeForge 1770462708 Emanuel 3 4.12 2017 Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero
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average rating: 4.12
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rating: 3
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]]> My Most Secret Desire 223790 “One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists.� —Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine

Considered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsating neurosis from a decidedly female point of view that set the comic-book world on its head when the series debuted. Doucet returns to comics after a five-year hiatus with a reworked edition of her dream journal My Most Secret Desire, complete with never-before-published material.

My Most Secret Desire is considered to be Doucet ’s most innovative work, exploring the longings, pressures, and exploits of the feminine subconscious. Nightmarish tales of pregnancy, menstruation, sex changes, and boyfriends haunt Doucet’s nocturnal psyche with a feverish and surreal pitch.
]]> 96 Julie Doucet 1896597955 Emanuel 3 3.83 1995 My Most Secret Desire
author: Julie Doucet
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average rating: 3.83
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> Monica 123209437 Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story � actually, stories � of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined the medium � war, romance, horror, crime, the supernatural, etc. � but in a mysterious, uncategorizable, and quintessentially Clowesian way that rewards multiple readings.
Five years in the making, Monica marks the apex of creativity from one of the defining voices of the graphic novel boom over the past quarter-century. A new book from Clowes is always a huge event in comics and literary circles; Monica will be the biggest literary event of 2023.]]> 106 Daniel Clowes 1683968824 Emanuel 4 3.92 2023 Monica
author: Daniel Clowes
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average rating: 3.92
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rating: 4
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]]> Birds of Maine 58772752
Birds roam freely around the Moon complete with fruitful trees, sophisticated fungal networks, and an enviable socialist order. The universal worm feeds all, there are no weekends, and economics is as fantastical a study as unicorn psychology. No concept of money or wealth plagues the thoughts of these free-minded birds. Instead, there are angsty teens who form bands to show off their best bird song and other youngsters who yearn to become clothing designers even though clothes are only necessary during war. (The truly honourable professions for most birds are historian and/or librarian.) These birds are free to crush on hot pelicans and live their best lives until a crash-landed human from Earth threatens to change everything.

Michael DeForge’s post-apocalyptic reality brings together the author’s quintessential deadpan humour, surrealist imagination, and undeniable socio-political insight. Appearing originally as a webcomic, Birds of Maine follows DeForge’s prolific trajectory of astounding graphic novels that reimagine and question the world as we know it. His latest comic captures the optimistic glow of utopian imagination with a late-capitalism sting of irony.]]> 464 Michael DeForge 1770465669 Emanuel 4 4.27 2022 Birds of Maine
author: Michael DeForge
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.27
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]]> 204927599 From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.]]> 528 Yuval Noah Harari 059373422X Emanuel 3 4.14 2024 Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
author: Yuval Noah Harari
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average rating: 4.14
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rating: 3
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]]> Hell Baby 1242827 200 Hideshi Hino 0922233128 Emanuel 3 3.71 1989 Hell Baby
author: Hideshi Hino
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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]]> Time Zone J 57693683
Time Zone J is Julie Doucet’s first inked comic since she famously quit in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women.

The year is 1989 and twenty-three-year-old Doucet is flying to France to meet with a soldier. He’s a man she only knows through their mail correspondence, a common enough reality of the zine era, when comics were mailed from cartoonist to reader and close relationships were formed. Time is not on their side―the soldier is just on furlough for a few days―but the two make the most of their visit and discuss future plans, maybe even Christmas in Doucet’s city, Montreal.

Based on diary entries from the whirlwind romance, the passion and high emotions of youth―before you know the limits of love, before you know the difference between love and lust―seep through the pages. In contrast to the tryst, Doucet draws herself today, at fifty-five.

After years of being in a crowd of men, Doucet compulsively returns to drawing, creating an alternate universe that foregrounds women. The pages of Time Zone J overflow with images pulled from past and present, faces and people that have inspired Doucet across more than three decades of creative work.]]> 144 Julie Doucet 1770464980 Emanuel 4 3.32 Time Zone J
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]]> Dressing 24796189 Very Casual, and shows the artist at the height of his occasionally fever-induced powers.

A prolific artist who is constantly producing work in a variety of media, DeForge is a designer and storyboard artist on the Emmy Award-winning show Adventure Time. One can see hints of that show's house style filtered through the Lynchian landscapes and otherworldly vistas of DeForge's vision.]]> 120 Michael DeForge 1927668220 Emanuel 5 4.02 2015 Dressing
author: Michael DeForge
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[All Tomorrow's Parties: The Velvet Underground Story]]> 62919031
Many cultural critics would agree that Andy Warhol gave the Velvet Underground their break simply by bringing them under his wing. While they reached a certain level of notoriety and local celebrity in their time and have since acquired a lasting cult following, their success was in large part fostered by Warhol’s patronage. But at the time, this relationship was muddied by a certain level of codependence and an insatiable appetite for fame and irony, leaving Reed to ponder Would we have succeeded without Warhol's help? This doubt begins to spread like a malignant force, eventually leading to the band’s undoing as they break away from Warhol and, perhaps, give up their golden ticket to success.

Explore the story behind the group The New York Times called "arguably the most influent2023ial American rock band of our time," through good times and bad, as captured in emotive style by multi-award winning artist Koren Shadmi ( Twilight Man, Love Confessions of a Serial Dater ).]]> 180 Koren Shadmi 1643375636 Emanuel 4 4.04 2023 All Tomorrow's Parties: The Velvet Underground Story
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 4
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]]> Familiar Face 45892282
The bodies of citizens and the infrastructure surrounding them is constantly updating. People can’t recognize themselves in old pictures, and they wake up in apartments of completely different sizes and shapes. Commuter routes radically differ day to day. The citizens struggle with adaptability as updates happen too quickly, and the changes are far too radical to be intuitive. There is no way to resist―the updates are enacted by a nameless, faceless force.

The narrator of Familiar Face works in the government’s department of complaints, reading through citizens� reports of the issues they’ve had with the system updates. The job isn’t to fix anything but rather to be the sole human sounding board, a comfort in a system so decidedly impersonal. These complaints aren’t mere bug reports―they can be existential, petty, just plain heartbreaking.

Michael DeForge’s ability to find the humanity and emotional truth within the outlandish bureaucracy of everyday life is unparalleled. The signatures of his work―a vibrant color palette, surreal designs, and a self-aware sense of humor―enliven an often bleak technocratic future. Familiar Face is a masterful and deeply funny exploration of how we define our sense of self, and how we cope when so much of life is out of our control.]]> 176 Michael DeForge 1770463879 Emanuel 3 4.20 2020 Familiar Face
author: Michael DeForge
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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I loved the chaotic art style, the short inserts of complaints, the representation of the web as a character and a few other details but I thought the plot was too basic and not engaging at all. I would just follow the story to enjoy those aspects I liked but I couldn't care less for the development of characters or the world building.
]]> <![CDATA[The Passenger: Rome (The Passenger, 8)]]> 59765158
IN THIS VOLUME: Rome doesn’t judge you by Nicola Lagioia・The soul of the city by Matteo Nucci�39 memos for a book about Rome by Francesco Piccolo・Plus: a guide to the sounds of Rome by Letizia Muratori; the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs; the influence of the Vatican; the excessive power of real estate speculators and the rule of gangs; disillusioned trappers; football fans of every age, and much more...

If you believe what’s currently being said about Rome—in the media and by its residents—the city is on the verge of collapse. Each year, it slips further down the ranking of the world’s most liveable cities. To the problems faced by all large capitals—hit-and-run tourism, traffic, the divide between elegant, Airbnb-dominated city centers and run-down suburbs—in recent years Rome seems to have added a list of calamities of its own: a string of failing administrations, widespread corruption, the resurgence of fascist movements, rampant crime. A seemingly hopeless situation, perfectly symbolized by the fact that Rome currently leads the world in the number of self-combusting public buses.

If we look closer, however, this narrative is contradicted by just as many signs that point in the opposite direction. Above all, the lack of the mass migration one would be except in these circumstances: the vast majority of Romans don’t think for a second of “betraying� their hometown, and the many newcomers who have populated it in recent decades are often indistinguishable from the natives in the profound love that binds them to the city.

Rome is a place of contradictions and opposites: an “incredibly deceptive city�, always different from what it appears to be. It is thought to be large but it is actually immense, the largest metropolis in Europe. Most important, contrary to the most common and least accurate stereotype about it, Rome is a profoundly modern city. While the city itself was founded almost three millennia ago, 92 per cent of its buildings have been built after 1945. The bottom line is that, in order to understand Rome and fix its problems, we should start considering it a normal city, “not unlike Chicago or Manchester.� Only, incomparably more beautiful.]]> 192 Leonardo Bianchi 1787703541 Emanuel 0 read-but-didn-t-like 3.90 2021 The Passenger: Rome (The Passenger, 8)
author: Leonardo Bianchi
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.90
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]]> Pessoa: An Experimental Life 56776806
Richard Zenith's Pessoa at last allows us to understand this extraordinary figure. Some eighty-five years after his premature death in Lisbon, where he left over 25,000 manuscript sheets in a wooden trunk, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) can now be celebrated as one of the great modern poets. Setting the story of his life against the nationalistic currents of European history, Zenith charts the heights of Pessoa's explosive imagination and literary genius.

Much of Pessoa's charm and strangeness came from his writing under a variety of names that he used not only to conceal his identity but also to write in wildly varied styles with different imagined personalities. Zenith traces the back stories of virtually all of these invented others, called 'heteronyms', demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself.

Zenith's monumental work confirms the power of Pessoa's words to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of modern life. It is also a wonderful book about Lisbon, the city which Pessoa reinvented and through which his different selves wandered.]]> 1055 Richard Zenith 0241534135 Emanuel 0 4.62 2021 Pessoa: An Experimental Life
author: Richard Zenith
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.62
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]]> <![CDATA[Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?: A Selection of 450 Gouaches]]> 37540041 599 Judith C.E. Belinfante 3836570777 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.66 1981 Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?: A Selection of 450 Gouaches
author: Judith C.E. Belinfante
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.66
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]]> Stunt 45746907 72 Michael DeForge 1927668697 Emanuel 4 4.08 2019 Stunt
author: Michael DeForge
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Loneliness The Long-Distance Cartoonist]]> 49542165 WINNER OF THE 2021 EISNER AWARDS - Best Graphic Memoir and Best Publication Design'Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.' ZADIE SMITH'A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking memoir.' Irish TimesThrough a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life - from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say 'Hey! You're that cartoonist!'Self-deprecating, honest, and above all else, humorous, Tomine mines his conflicted relationship with comics and writing, and people at large, and once again animates the absurdities of modern life and how we choose to live it.]]> 168 Adrian Tomine 0571357687 Emanuel 4 4.06 2020 Loneliness The Long-Distance Cartoonist
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.06
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]]> This Is Hardcore 158165237
Dark, right? Except just like Pulp themselves, Jane Savidge's book is playful and sometimes very funny indeed. Kicking off with an imaginary conversation between Jarvis Cocker and the people who run the Total Fame Solutions helpline, Savidge expertly guides us through the trials and tribulations of an album that begins with the so-called Michael Jackson Incident, when Cocker got up on stage at the 1996 Brit Awards and waggled his fully-clothed bum at the King of Pop. Pulp's This Is Hardcor e may be a sleazy run through porn and mental demise, and an album that chronicles Cocker's continuing disillusionment with his newfound lot in life, but Savidge's book assesses the cultural and historical context of the album with insider knowledge and a sharp modern lens, ultimately making a case for it as one of the most important albums of the 1990s.]]> 150 Jane Savidge Emanuel 2 3.76 2024 This Is Hardcore
author: Jane Savidge
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.76
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Sooooo many mistakes, don't these books get reviewed by an editor?? Jeez. Very few insights honestly, quite superficial treatment.
]]> Cold Nights of Childhood 61157636 Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, is overcome by depression on her return, and trapped in a psychiatry clinic for five years. After electroshock therapy and inhumane treatment, she is released into the care of friends and family, making tentative steps in a halting journey towards recovery.

In her unique, unstructured style, Tezer Özlü explores the extremity of her inner life and the painful pleasures of memory. Translated into English for the first time by Maureen Freely, this novel is a classic akin to The Bell Jar and Good Morning, Midnight.]]> 96 Tezer Ozlu 1788168712 Emanuel 4 3.70 1980 Cold Nights of Childhood
author: Tezer Ozlu
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1980
rating: 4
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Emanuel 5 favorites 3.97 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
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average rating: 3.97
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos]]> 30257963 What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.

What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.]]> 409 Jordan B. Peterson 0345816021 Emanuel 4 3.90 2018 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> Lanzarote 58376
On Lanzarote, one can meet some fascinating human specimens, notably Pam and Barbara - 'non-exclusive' German lesbians - who can give rise to some interesting combinations. Will they succeed in seducing Rudi, the police inspector from Luxembourg, currently living in exile in Brussels? Or will he join the 'Azraelian' sect, as they prepare for humanity to be regenerated by extra-terrestrials? As for our narrator, will he consider his week's holiday on the island a success?]]> 87 Michel Houellebecq 009944836X Emanuel 2 3.28 2000 Lanzarote
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]]> Charlotte 27160922 Life? Or Theatre?, it was exhibited in fragments in the 1960s; a 1998 exhibition of the complete work in the London Royal Academy became a sensation and eventually published in book form.


David Foenkinos, himself obsessed with Charlotte, has written his own utterly original tribute to her tragic life and transcendent art. His novel is the result of a long-cherished desire to pay tribute to this young artist. Written with passion, life, humor, and intelligent observation, Charlotte, with rights sold in 12 countries and over 500,000 copies in print in France, is a triumph of creative expression, a monument to genius stilled too soon, and an ode to the will to survive.]]> 224 David Foenkinos 1468312766 Emanuel 4 4.33 2014 Charlotte
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> <![CDATA[Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story]]> 42980966
Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman's fateful train journey.

Lips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like "guilt, and guilt, and guilt" these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.

"But what is the ninth kingdom?" she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. "It is the kingdom of the frozen will," comes the reply. "There is no going back."

Sylvia Plath's strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.]]> 40 Sylvia Plath 0062940856 Emanuel 3 3.94 2019 Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story
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Loved the language and some of the descriptions. Got the allegory but it felt a bit meh.
]]> <![CDATA[Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness]]> 55648627 Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society.

There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns.

In Seek You, Kristen Radtke's wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains. Through the lenses of gender and violence, technology and art, Radtke ushers us through a history of loneliness and longing, and shares what feels impossible to share.

Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to the rise of Instagram, the bootstrap-pulling cowboy to the brutal experiments of Harry Harlow, Radtke investigates why we engage with each other, and what we risk when we turn away. With her distinctive, emotionally charged drawings and deeply empathetic prose, Kristen Radtke masterfully shines a light on some of our most vulnerable and sublime moments, and asks how we might keep the spaces between us from splitting entirely.]]> 352 Kristen Radtke 1524748064 Emanuel 3 4.00 2021 Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
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]]> Men Without Women 29970014
Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.]]> 228 Haruki Murakami 191121537X Emanuel 4 3.73 2014 Men Without Women
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]]> Home After Dark 38730623 416 David Small 0871403153 Emanuel 3 3.61 2018 Home After Dark
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]]> Sylvia 3914
Reproducing a time and place with extraordinary clarity, Leonard Michaels explores with self-wounding honesty the excruciating particulars of a youthful marriage headed for disaster.]]> 129 Leonard Michaels 0374271070 Emanuel 4 3.82 1992 Sylvia
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]]> Life Form 15812214
Although initially repulsed, Nothomb is fascinated and begins exchanging letters in earnest with Mapple.]]> 125 Amélie Nothomb 1609450884 Emanuel 3 3.68 2010 Life Form
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]]> The Fall 11991
The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. The Fall explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth. In a eulogy to Albert Camus, existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre described the novel as "perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood" of Camus' books.]]> 147 Albert Camus 0679720227 Emanuel 4 4.07 1956 The Fall
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil]]> 52090 The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication.

This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence,

Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling and unsettled issues of the twentieth century that remains hotly debated to this day.]]> 312 Hannah Arendt Emanuel 0 to-read 4.22 1963 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder]]> 61714633 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.]]> 331 David Grann 0385534264 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.14 2023 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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]]> Chess Story 59151
Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.

This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.]]> 104 Stefan Zweig 1590171691 Emanuel 5 4.31 1942 Chess Story
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]]> La infancia del mundo 80070444 A cyberpunk fever-dream of climate catastrophe: the full-length fiction debut from one of the boldest new voices in Argentinian literature, thrillingly translated by Rahul Bery.

After the last Antarctic icecaps melt, calamity follows. Landscapes are radically transformed, diseases mutate and spread with unprecedented speed, and, in response, forms the ghastly “virofinance� exchange—a market for corporations to profit from pandemics and global suffering.

It’s in this grim near-future of 2272, where words such as “winter� and “cold� have no meaning, the Dengue Child grows.

The monstrous humanoid mosquito emerges in newly tropical Argentina, carrying its namesake virus and despairing of its own existence. Bullies brutalize the child until a violent eruption of revelation and transformation takes place, shockwaves of which will extend far beyond the schoolyard into a society full of terrors and wonders enabled and exposed by climate collapse.

Powerful telepathic stones from the bowels of the earth, sought after by smugglers, seem to hold a volatile, primordial wisdom. The meager remaining glaciers are harvested for skating rinks on luxury cruises. And the youth obsess over an immersive, addictive video game that presents a virtual world far more attractive than reality.

In the tradition of Kafka, Cronenberg, and Philip K. Dick, Michel Nieva's brilliant, hilarious, and demented Dengue Boy draws on manga, body horror, and gaucho-punk science fiction to tell a delirious, frenetic, singular story about the ravages of capitalism and what hope might exist, if any, for revenge and rebirth.]]> 159 Michel Nieva 8433901788 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.67 2023 La infancia del mundo
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]]> <![CDATA[A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing]]> 40242274

The answer: turn to Burton G. Malkiel’s advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on “tax-loss harvesting,� the crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on factor investing and risk parity. And as always, Malkiel’s core insights—on stocks and bonds, as well as real estate investment trusts, home ownership, and tangible assets like gold and collectibles� along with the book’s classic life-cycle guide to investing, will help restore confidence and composure to anyone seeking a calm route through today’s financial markets.]]> 432 Burton G. Malkiel 1324002182 Emanuel 4 4.18 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
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average rating: 4.18
book published: 1973
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us]]> 59575939 A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.

We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.

In An Immense World, author and acclaimed science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to understand our world we don't need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.]]> 464 Ed Yong Emanuel 0 to-read 4.46 2022 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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]]> <![CDATA[I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life]]> 27213168
Yong, whose humor is as evident as his erudition, prompts us to look at ourselves and our animal companions in a new light—less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent multitudes we assuredly are. The microbes in our bodies are part of our immune systems and protect us from disease. Those in cows and termites digest the plants they eat. In the deep oceans, mysterious creatures without mouths or guts depend on microbes for all their energy. Bacteria provide squids with invisibility cloaks, help beetles to bring down forests, and allow worms to cause diseases that afflict millions of people.

I Contain Multitudes is the story of these extraordinary partnerships, between the creatures we are familiar with and those we are not. It reveals how we humans are disrupting these partnerships and how we might manipulate them for our own good. It will change both our view of nature and our sense of where we belong in it.]]> 368 Ed Yong 0062368591 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.16 2016 I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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]]> Memorias de Adriano 71557 320 Marguerite Yourcenar 9871138695 Emanuel 5 4.24 1951 Memorias de Adriano
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rating: 5
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Emanuel 5 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
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]]> <![CDATA[The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)]]> 53317528 Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing

Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969-71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child's single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.

Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her competing roles as daughter, wife, mother, and drug addict, and she writes about female experience and identity in a way that feels very fresh and pertinent to today's discussions around feminism. Ditlevsen's trilogy is remarkable for its intensity and its immersive depiction of a world of complex female friendships, family and growing up--in this sense, it's Copenhagen's answer to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Her trilogy is drawn from her own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind of fiction.

Born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in 1917, Ditlevsen became famous for her poetry while still a teenager, and went on to write novels, stories and memoirs before committing suicide in 1976. Having been dismissed by the critical establishment in her lifetime as a working-class, female writer, she is now being rediscovered and championed as one of Denmark's most important modern authors, with Tove fever gripping readers.]]> 371 Tove Ditlevsen 0374602395 Emanuel 5 4.36 1967 The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
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]]> Me prometiste oscuridad 59070545
Yuko y Sebastián, dos hermanos con auras especiales, viven escapando de un ser conocido como el Antitodo, quien se alimenta de auras especiales, volviéndose más fuerte con cada ingesta. Este ser está obsesionado con las auras de estos hermanos y no se detendrán hasta devorarlas. Al mismo tiempo, una extraña pitonisa pronostica que el encuentro de los hermanos con ese villano podría desencadenar el fin del mundo. Pero Yuko y Sebastián no estarán solos, recibirán la ayuda de un misterioso grupo formado por otros “hijos del cometa� quienes harán lo imposible para detener al todo poderoso Antitodo.

Un cometa, poderes extraños, un dóberman gigante, satanistas, abogados poseídos, canciones hipnóticas, el fin del mundo una y otra vez; y por supuesto, una extraña promesa. Un cómic escrito y dibujado por Damián Connelly.]]> 180 Damián Connelly 9878810070 Emanuel 3 3.10 2021 Me prometiste oscuridad
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]]> <![CDATA[The Passenger: Barcelona (The Passenger, 12)]]> 75652533 IN THIS Lovestruck in Barcelona by Enrique Vila-Matas � Supermanza 503 by Gabi Martinez � The Great Barcelona Novel by Miqui Otero � the complex legacy of the Olympics; the future of Catalonia; the radical left and the once best in the world soccer team; an endless subway line, and much more�
Thirty years after the 1992 Olympics, which redefined the city’s contemporary identity and changed its destiny, The Passenger travels to Barcelona to understand the history and future of one of the cradles of political, cultural, and urban change in Europe.
From the debate about the impact of mass tourism to the search of new and sustainable models of economic and social development; from the eternal rivalry with Madrid to the rediscovery of the city’s rich tradition of political this volume of The Passenger offers a panoramic view of a city striving to trace a new path forward out of the current crisis, and find a way of life centered on the well-being of its citizens.]]> 192 Various 1787704378 Emanuel 4 3.70 The Passenger: Barcelona (The Passenger, 12)
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Better than the Paris, a bit more consistent quality.
]]> Corona de flores 9488386 305 Javier Calvo 8439722451 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.68 2010 Corona de flores
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]]> <![CDATA[Por el camino de Swann (En busca del tiempo perdido #1)]]> 44553912
"Por el camino de Swann", cuya primera edición en 1913 fue sufragada por el propio Proust ante el desinterés de los editores, pasó desapercibida.
Esta primera entrega se abre con el pasaje más célebre de los que escribió Marcel Proust. La evocación de la infancia del narrador en Combray le permite recobrar una serie de personajes que llenaron sus primeros años de existencia, así como también el lugar donde transcurrió dicho período. Pronto cobran nitidez en la evocación del narrador los paseos cotidianos de niñ el camino de Méséglise, que le retrotrae, a su vez, al recuerdo de los personajes que lo poblaban, como Swann, su hija Gilberta y el músico Vinteuil, y el camino de los Guermantes, que conduce hasta un espacio habitado por unos aristócratas cuyas vidas son demasiado irreales para el conocimiento del mundo que poseía aquel niño. Rememora la relación amorosa entre Swann y su futura esposa, Odette de Crécy. La mala reputación que goza ésta entre la alta sociedad, lo obliga a frecuentar otros ambientes, como la casa de los Verdurin, unos nuevos ricos que encarnan los anhelos de ascenso social. En la última parte, el narrador ya se recuerda a sí mismo como ese adolescente angustiado por su pasión amorosa hacia Gilberta, la hija de Swann.

"Por el Camino de Swann" es el primer volumen de la serie que completan, por este orden, "A la sombra de las muchachas en flor", "El mundo de Guermantes", "Sodoma y Gomorra", "La prisionera", "La fugitiva" y "El tiempo recobrado".]]> 504 Marcel Proust 8832544296 Emanuel 0
]]> 4.05 1913 Por el camino de Swann (En busca del tiempo perdido #1)
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not for me right now, I'll pick it up some other time. 80% read.


]]> King Kong théorie 2099048 Parce que l’idéal de la femme blanche séduisante qu’on nous brandit tout le temps sous le nez, je crois bien qu’il n’existe pas.
V.D.
En racontant pour la première fois comment elle est devenue Virginie Despentes, l’auteur de Baise-moi conteste les discours bien-pensants sur le viol, la prostitution, la pornographie. Manifeste pour un nouveau féminisme.]]> 155 Virginie Despentes 2253122114 Emanuel 0 4.14 2006 King Kong théorie
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette]]> 772139 372 James Monaco 0195022467 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.99 1977 The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia]]> 1033060 the source on film and media. Now, James Monaco offers a revised and rewritten third edition incorporating every major aspect of this dynamic medium right up to the present.

Looking at film from many vantage points, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to such other narrative media as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, Monaco discusses those elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.

In a key departure from the book's previous editions, the new and still-evolving digital context of film is now emphasized throughout How to Read a Film. A new chapter on multimedia brings media criticism into the twenty-first century with a thorough discussion of topics like virtual reality, cyberspace, and the proximity of both to film. Monaco has likewise doubled the size and scope of his Film and Media: A Chronology appendix. The book also features a new introduction, an expanded bibliography, and hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams. It is a must for all film students, media buffs, and movie fans.]]> 672 James Monaco 019503869X Emanuel 0 to-read 3.85 1977 How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia
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]]> Su cuerpo y otras fiestas 42507908 248 Carmen Maria Machado 8433939858 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.42 2017 Su cuerpo y otras fiestas
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]]> <![CDATA[Pedro Paramo (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) by Rulfo (1994) Paperback]]> 138845880 0 Juan Rulfo Emanuel 0 5.00 1955 Pedro Paramo (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) by Rulfo (1994) Paperback
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1955
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Van Gogh. Il suicidato della società]]> 9710720 magia nera della società stessa, l’universale fattura che essa fa agire su tutti a essere chiamata qui da Artaud con il suo nome. È questa la prima e insuperata forma di «crimine organizzato» che ci governa. Van Gogh, e come lui Gérard de Nerval, o Artaud stesso, stavano per sottrarsi alle maglie di quella fattura, ma ne furono alla fine catturati di nuovo, come vittime preziose, di cui spartirsi le spoglie. Un anno prima di morire, nel 1947, Artaud affrontò van Gogh, raccontando la sua «funebre e rivoltante storia di garrottato da uno spirito malvagio», e illuminando con la luce barbagliante delle sue frasi spezzate ciò che significa la maledizione dell’artista, il nemico occulto del suo opus: «In fondo ai suoi occhi come depilati, da beccaio, van Gogh si abbandonava senza tregua a una di quelle operazioni di oscura alchimia che hanno preso la natura per oggetto e il corpo umano per marmitta o crogiolo».]]> 182 Antonin Artaud 8845903133 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.14 1947 Van Gogh. Il suicidato della società
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist]]> 75887 Heliogabalus is Artaud's greatest and most revolutionary masterpiece: an incendiary work that reveals both the divine cruelty of the Roman Emperor and that of Artaud himself. -- Stephen Barber

]]> 154 Antonin Artaud 0971457808 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.97 1934 Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist
author: Antonin Artaud
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1934
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]]> The Interview 30341581 The Interview is a science fiction novel that eschews the stars in favor of the delicate, fragile, interior world of human emotion.]]> 180 Manuele Fior 1606999869 Emanuel 3 3.39 2013 The Interview
author: Manuele Fior
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average rating: 3.39
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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Beautiful art and atmosphere, good dialogs. Starts really well and seems like it's gonna go deep and then 3/4 in it kinda falls apart and a ton of expository dialogs takes over and the emotional impact is flattened.
]]> Heartsnatcher 28377 245 Boris Vian 1564782999 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.07 1953 Heartsnatcher
author: Boris Vian
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.07
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]]> La pesquisa 348241 206 Juan José Saer 9875801380 Emanuel 3 3.93 1994 La pesquisa
author: Juan José Saer
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> Silver Nitrate 63249718 New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers.

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys� club running the film industry in �90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.]]> 323 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 0593355369 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.56 2023 Silver Nitrate
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]]> <![CDATA[Nach Paris - Sternennacht: Teil 2 von 2]]> 99480135 0 Benoît Peeters 3946337171 Emanuel 0 to-read 0.0 Nach Paris - Sternennacht: Teil 2 von 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-Street]]> 18052044 45 Herman Melville Emanuel 0 4.01 1853 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-Street
author: Herman Melville
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average rating: 4.01
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Dificil ponerle un rating, siendo que fue tan influyente. A pesar del estilo, la tematica es super moderna. Lo que sucede cuando la tuerca no quiere ajustar y el martillo no quiere golpear. Existentialism precoz frente a un capitalism en marcha pero joven.
]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Emanuel 4 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1932
rating: 4
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]]> Seda 60049
Sutilísima mezcla de historia y fábula, relato delicado sobre el amor, de un erotismo contenido, Seda es un tejido de silencios, de gestos casi simbólicos, que recubren, angélicamente, una pasión volcánica. Traducida a diecisiete idiomas y con más de 700.000 ejemplares vendidos, esta novela significó la consagración internacional de Alessandro Baricco.]]> 128 Alessandro Baricco 8433908405 Emanuel 3 3.90 1996 Seda
author: Alessandro Baricco
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1996
rating: 3
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Imposible de no disfrutar. Una historia leve y bella como los reflejos de luz en el agua.
]]> Bartleby & Co. 58832 Bartleby Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists of refusal" as Robert Walser, Robert Musil, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcel Duchamp, Herman Melville, and J. D. Salinger, Bartleby Co. could be described as a meditation: a walking tour through the annals of literature. Written as a series of footnotes (a non-work itself), Bartleby embarks on such questions as why do we write, why do we exist? The answer lies in the novel itself: told from the point of view of a hermetic hunchback who has no luck with women, and is himself unable to write, Bartleby is an utterly engaging work of profound and philosophical beauty.]]> 178 Enrique Vila-Matas 0811216985 Emanuel 3 lovely. me recuerda a Fresan 3.99 2000 Bartleby & Co.
author: Enrique Vila-Matas
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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lovely. me recuerda a Fresan
]]> Gravity’s Rainbow 415 776 Thomas Pynchon 0143039946 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.01 1973 Gravity’s Rainbow
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.01
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]]> Pornografia 475965 176 Witold Gombrowicz 0714529885 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.98 1960 Pornografia
author: Witold Gombrowicz
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]]> Ferdydurke 15581
Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style. and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century."

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) wrote three other novels. Trans-Atlantyk. Pornografia. and Cosmos. which together with his plays and his three-volume Diary have been translated into more than thirty languages.]]> 320 Witold Gombrowicz 0300082401 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.77 1937 Ferdydurke
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]]> Cosmos 15584
Cosmos is a metaphysical noir thriller narrated by Witold, a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns. On his way to a relaxing vacation he meets the despondent Fuks. As they set off together for a family-run pension in the Carpathian Mountains they discover a dead bird hanging from a string. Is this a strange but meaningless occurrence or is it the beginning of a string of bizarre events? As the young men become embroiled in the Chekhovian travails of the family running the pension, Grombrowicz creates a gripping narrative where the reader questions who is sane and who is safe?]]> 189 Witold Gombrowicz 0300108486 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.05 1965 Cosmos
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[El hombre sin atributos 1 (ed)]]> 850838 684 Robert Musil 8432227722 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.25 1930 El hombre sin atributos 1 (ed)
author: Robert Musil
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1930
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]]> El hombre sin atributos 27851067
«El hombre sin atributos es una de las novelas cumbre de este siglo. No es sólo una obra de arte. Es también un análisis minucioso y sistemático del alma de la civilización, un panorama prodigioso de sus enfermedades y de sus virtudes», Javier Alfaya, El Mundo

«La más importante novela del siglo XX escrita en alemán», El País

«Espléndido y terapéutico, inteligente y dotado de un agudo sentido del humor», Sunday Telegraph]]> 1568 Robert Musil 8432248142 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.13 1930 El hombre sin atributos
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]]> <![CDATA[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]> 76527
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.]]> 735 Laurence Sterne 0141439777 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.72 1767 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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]]> O Josephine 42123832 176 Jason 1683962109 Emanuel 2 3.39 2019 O Josephine
author: Jason
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2019
rating: 2
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]]> Flowers for Hitler 536385 To a Man Who Thinks
He Is Making an Angel
I Had It for a Moment
The Hearth
On the Sickness of My Love
Island Bulletin
Portrait of the City Hall
Cruel Baby
Independence
Congratulations
For Marianne
The House
The Drawer's Condition on November 28, 1961
The Failure of a Secular Life
Order
The Suit
My Mentors
Destiny
Business as Usual
Hydra 1960
Queen Victoria and Me
Indictment of the Blue Hole
Leviathan
The Pure List and the Commentary
Nothing I Can Lose
Heirloom
The New Step (A Ballet-Drama in One Act)
Police Gazette
Promise
The Paper
No Partners
Sky
Nursery Rhyme
On the Death of an Uncharted Planet
Waiting for Marianne
Old Dialogue
I Wanted to Be a Doctor
Why I Happen to Be Free
Winter Bulletin
On Hearing a Name
Long Unspoken
The True Desire
Why Did You Give My Name to the Police?
Finally I Called
The Way Back
Governments Make Me Lonely
Style
The Project
The Lists
Goebbels Abandons His Novel and Joins the Party
Hydra 1963
To the Indian Pilgrims
Why Commands Are Obeyed
All There Is to Know about Adolph Eichmann
The Music Crept By Us
It Uses Us!
The New Leader
The Telephone
The First Murder
How It Happened in the Middle of the Day
Disguises
My Teacher Is Dying
For E.J.P.
Lot
Montreal 1964
The Glass Dog
One of the Nights I Didn't Kill Myself
Why Experience Is No Teacher
A Migrating Dialogue
The Big World
For My Old Layton
The Bus
Narcissus
The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward Laundry
Cherry Orchards
The Invisible Trouble
The Rest Is Dross
Streetcars
Sick Alone
How the Winter Gets In
Bullets
Millennium
Propaganda
Hitler
Hitler the Brain-Mole
Opium and Hitler
Front Lawn
Death of a Leader
For Anyone Dressed in Marble
Kerensky
Alexander Trocchi, Public Junkie
Priez Pour Nous
Wheels, Fireclouds
Another Night with Telescope
Three Good Nights
Folk]]> 154 Leonard Cohen 0224008412 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.01 1964 Flowers for Hitler
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.01
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]]> Las fuerzas extrañas 1114472 141 Leopoldo Lugones 9872105545 Emanuel 0 3.65 1906 Las fuerzas extrañas
author: Leopoldo Lugones
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1906
rating: 0
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]]> Historia del ojo 965555 Historia del ojo se aborda mediante una prosa en clave surrealista la esencia obsesiva del sexo, la muerte y la fe que configura, en realidad, gran parte de la obra de Bataille. Partiendo de un proceso creativo muy querido de los surrealistas, relaciona, en una trama anecdótica, las imágenes que de un modo inconsciente y automático evocan el ojo, el huevo, el sol, los genitales del toro, con toda su carga de connotaciones atávicas, y nos las «revela» en su contenido erótico más revulsivo. El personaje de la joven Simone, que transgrede en todos sus actos cualquier norma de comportamiento sexual admitido, moral y conscientemente, es la encarnación, por una parte, del Deseo inconsciente y, por otra, del Pecado, de lo Prohibido y por ende del Placer, que a su vez, por ser fruto del mal, no es más que portador del máximo castigo : la muerte. Así pues, el goce en su plenitud sabe siempre a muerte.

Es una satisfacción para nosotros acompañar la edición española de esta pequeña gran obra de Bataille con un extenso y revelador ensayo de Mario Vargas Llosa, titulado El placer glacial, y de las espléndidas y revulsivas ilustraciones que Hans Bellmer, uno de las más destacados artistas plásticos del movimiento surrealista, realizó en 1944 para un lujosa edición reducida de Historia del ojo.]]> 143 Georges Bataille 8472233103 Emanuel 4 3.44 1928 Historia del ojo
author: Georges Bataille
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.44
book published: 1928
rating: 4
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]]> L'Abbé C 14800034 144 Georges Bataille 0141195533 Emanuel 3 3.05 1950 L'Abbé C
author: Georges Bataille
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.05
book published: 1950
rating: 3
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]]> Hotel du Lac 251665
But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.]]> 184 Anita Brookner 0679759328 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.59 1984 Hotel du Lac
author: Anita Brookner
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1984
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]]> Look At Me 29429921 'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.'

By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. Suddenly, Frances' life is full and ripe with new engagements. But too late, Frances realises that she may be only a play thing, to be picked up and discarded once used. And that just one act in defiance of Alix's wishes could see her lose everything . . .]]> 192 Anita Brookner 0241977770 Emanuel 5 4.09 1983 Look At Me
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> Cielos de Córdoba 17981966
Luciano Lamberti afirma en el prólogo: “Un libro peligroso y tierno, sobre cómo descubrimos que algo anda irremediablemente mal en el mundo. Una historia de iniciación poética y verdadera. Un libro argentino en el sentido Isabel Sarli de la palabra�.

“Una nouvelle que se lee en una tarde. Una tarde que se puede convertir en algo extraño. Cielos de Córdoba, con ese título tan� ¿común? ¿poco común?, está a la altura de las expectativas que había despertado la inclusión de su autor entre los mejores escritores del mundo de habla hispana según la revista Granta. Una pequeña demostración de la habilidad narrativa de Federico Falco, editada con el cuidado que está convirtiendo a Nudista en un punto de referencia.� (suplemento VOS, Diario La Voz del Interior � ed. 20/12/2011)]]> 104 Federico Falco 9872593167 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.41 2011 Cielos de Córdoba
author: Federico Falco
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average rating: 3.41
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]]> Los llanos 55883115
Una novela sutil que aborda el duelo de una ruptura. Un libro sobre el tiempo que pasa y sobre el llano en el que habita un hombre que cultiva una huerta y mira y recuerda y escribe.

«En la ciudad se pierde la noción de las horas del día, del paso del tiempo. En el campo es imposible», empieza diciendo el narrador de esta historia, que a continuación va desgranando su día a día en una casa con una huerta donde se ha aislado de todo y de todos, tratando, acaso, de huir de sí mismo. El tiempo ahí casi se palpa, avanza sin premuras y permite sentir todo lo que uno tiene a su alrededor: los insectos, los ruidos, el olor de la tierra húmeda, los detalles minúsculos�

Esta historia empieza en enero, y se nos cuenta en capítulos que abarcan varios meses. El protagonista mantiene fugaces encuentros con personas del entorno rural en el que se ha autoexiliado, recuerda su infancia –aquel italiano veterano de alguna guerra que se ahorcó al confundir las luces del pueblo con fogonazos de cañones; aquellas historias que contaba la abuela, acaso reales, acaso sacadas de alguna película…�, evoca su llegada a la ciudad como estudiante, el interés por la estructura de las historias que contamos, el empeño en desentrañar el secreto de su funcionamiento; y evoca su relación con Ciro y su ruptura con él, que lo ha traído hasta ahí.

Esta novela sutil, elusiva y bellísima aborda el duelo de una ruptura, la soledad que activa todos los sentidos, la sabiduría secreta de los versos iluminadores de algunos poetas, la necesidad de contarnos historias... Este es un libro sobre el tiempo que pasa y sobre el llano en el que habita un hombre que cultiva una huerta y mira y recuerda y escribe.

«Después de ser abandonado por su novio, un escritor decide volver al campo. Alquila una casa y dedica los días, las semanas, los meses, a cultivar zapallos, lechugas, achicorias, a pelear con los yuyos y las hormigas, a criar gallinas, mientras intenta comprender los motivos por los que fue rechazado y rememora la historia de sus ancestros, llegados del Piamonte a principios del siglo veinte. “Contar una historia cambia a quien la cuenta�, nos dice el protagonista de esta novela, quien entiende la escritura como una manera de atarse a la vida. Pero leerla también nos cambia, nos hace sentir que incluso en los peores momentos hay una tierra en la que podemos apoyar los pies e inclinarnos para encontrar la paz y una literatura a la que es posible encomendarse para reconciliarnos con nosotros mismos» (Juan Pablo Villalobos, miembro del jurado).]]> 240 Federico Falco 8433999117 Emanuel 4 4.12 2020 Los llanos
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1 (1)]]> 58532693
A mysterious young woman slithers her way into the lives of unsuspecting people like the legendary multitailed serpent for which she is named—Orochi.

Umezz’s classic horror manga opens with “Sisters,� in which Orochi affects the lives of two wealthy siblings who couldn’t be more alike…or more different. Next, in “Bones,� Orochi helps a man come back to life after a terrible accident, but resurrection can be a deadly business…]]> 320 Kazuo Umezz 1974725839 Emanuel 0 to-read, read-but-didn-t-like 3.72 1969 Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1 (1)
author: Kazuo Umezz
name: Emanuel
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1969
rating: 0
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]]> Lo imborrable 3256289 256 Juan José Saer 9507313680 Emanuel 4 4.28 1999 Lo imborrable
author: Juan José Saer
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> One Hundred Demons 29011 224 Lynda Barry 1570614598 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.17 2002 One Hundred Demons
author: Lynda Barry
name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> Hierba del cielo 916771 Marco Denevi 9500506211 Emanuel 0 read-but-didn-t-like 4.00 Hierba del cielo
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name: Emanuel
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> Respiración artificial 1646 Respiración artificial se trata no sólo del único libro memorable publicado durante el período de la dictadura militar (la edición original es de 1980), sino también de una espléndida ficción que se convierte en espejo de la historia, de una novela que, utilizando la estructura de la novela policíaca -para Piglia éste es uno de los géneros fundamentales de la literatura contemporánea-, puede leerse como una indagación sobre los enigmas de épocas convulsas, de personajes oscuros.

El joven escritor Emilio Renzi -que reaparecerá luego en otras obras de Piglia- ha escrito su primer libro, la narración conjetural de una historia que circulaba en su familia en varias versiones. Y es entonces, tras la publicación de aquel relato de equívocas traiciones y castigos, cuando Renzi conoce por fin al protagonista, su tío Marcelo Maggi. A finales de los años setenta, Maggi vive en provincias, en una ciudad fronteriza, dedicado a descifrar las cartas y papeles de Enrique Ossorio, el secretario privado de Juan Manuel de Rosas, un personaje que habría podido ser un héroe, y de quien se sospecha que fue un traidor. De Renzi a Maggi, y de éste a Ossorio: casi sin darnos cuenta hemos retrocedido ciento treinta años y se ha borrado la frontera entre literatura e historia, entre realidad y ficción. Ossorio se suicidó en Chile, en 1850, poco antes de la caída de Rosas, después de un vertiginoso exilio. En sus largas conversaciones, Renzi y Maggi intentan aclarar ese y otros muchos enigmas. Y también encontramos al polaco Tardewski (detrás del cual se esconde, o quizá se muestra, la figura del genial Witold Gombrowicz), quien refiere un encuentro tan posible como inverosímil entre Hitler y Kafka en la Praga de los años veinte; y al paranoico Arocena que, como un lector de novelas policíacas, busca en cada frase la clave que permita descifrar el entero enigma. Y así, a través de exilios y cartas, de libros y de retazos de historia, de vidas desgarradas y relatos inconclusos, se trama una de las novelas más radicalmente originales y atractivas en castellano de las últimas décadas.

Respiración artificial es la irrefutable respuesta a quienes se pregunten por qué, tras la muerte de Borges y Bioy Casares, Piglia se convirtiera en la figura que heredó el cetro de la literatura argentina.]]> 224 Ricardo Piglia 8433924710 Emanuel 0 4.01 1980 Respiración artificial
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]]> Faces in the Water 125009 254 Janet Frame 0704338610 Emanuel 4 4.08 1961 Faces in the Water
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]]> <![CDATA[Los siete locos (Los siete locos, #1)]]> 214693 256 Roberto Arlt 8495994011 Emanuel 0 3.97 1929 Los siete locos (Los siete locos, #1)
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> The Insufferable Gaucho 7863547 164 Roberto Bolaño 0811217167 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.90 2003 The Insufferable Gaucho
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]]> The Palace of Dreams 797635 208 Ismail Kadare 1559704160 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.04 1981 The Palace of Dreams
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]]> No leer 41811368 Inventario de filias, fobias y caprichos, delicioso álbum de citas, proyectos frustrados y declaraciones de amor –a las fotocopias, a la penumbra, a la palabra borrador, a la poesía chilena y a los orilleros del boom latinoamericano�, No leer es un libro apasionado, extraño, divertido y melancólico, de quien es uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más talentosos y reconocidos de los tiempos recientes.]]> 265 Alejandro Zambra 8433939688 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.92 2010 No leer
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]]> El desierto y su semilla 6251809 En este texto -interrumpido por ráfagas de "cocoliche globalizado"- la existencia del autor y la función de la novela se articulan de manera que la realidad aporta lo increíble mientras la ficción procura empeñosamente construir alguna verosimilitud.]]> 249 Jorge Barón Biza 9879243196 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.09 1998 El desierto y su semilla
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]]> Los pichiciegos 1201457
Escrito al calor de la guerra, al mismo tiempo que se convirtió en el libro más emblemático de Malvinas, Los pichiciegos se posicionó como una de las novelas más importantes de la literatura argentina del siglo XX: una obra maestra condensada en pocas páginas que logra combinar potencia narrativa, diálogos perfectos y un talento incuestionable para retratar con tono cotidiano las miserias, la cobardía y el sinsentido de los momentos límite.

Luego de construir la Pichicera -un refugio subterráneo al margen de la guerra- un grupo de soldados argentinos atraviesan el desenlace del conflicto bélico obsesionados por sobrevivir y establecen sus propias reglas y códigos de conducta a medida que controlan el suministro de pastillas, cigarrillos, guarniciones y pilas que consiguen, incluso, traficando con el bando de los ingleses.

Con los años Los pichiciegos alcanzó algo aún más trascendente que convertirse en un clásico: logró mantener intacto su carácter urgente.]]> 156 Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill 9871180284 Emanuel 0 4.04 1982 Los pichiciegos
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]]> <![CDATA[An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)]]> 641535 434 Janet Frame 0704346931 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.24 1982 An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
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]]> The Lagoon 125007 184 Janet Frame 0747531897 Emanuel 0 to-read 3.93 1951 The Lagoon
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]]> London: Immigrant City 56796282
'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so much more. The book is difficult to put it down'
Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, New York

'The ultimate book about Great Britain's capital'
Dagbladet

'One of the best books of the year! . . . This is a book about what a city is and can be'
Aftenposten


Is there a street in London which does not contain a story from the Empire? Immigrants made London; and they keep remaking it in a thousand different ways. Nazneen Khan-Østrem has drawn a wonderful new map of a city that everyone thought they already knew.

She travels around the city, meeting the very people who have created a truly unique metropolis, and shows how London's incredible development is directly attributable to the many different groups of immigrants who arrived after the Second World War, in part due to the Nationality Act of 1948. Her book reveals the historical, cultural and political changes within those communities which have fundamentally transformed the city, and which have rarely been considered alongside each other.

Nazneen Khan-Østrem has a cosmopolitan background herself, being a British, Muslim, Asian woman, born in Nairobi and raised in the UK and Norway, which has helped her in unravelling the city's rich immigrant history and its constant ongoing evolution.

Drawing on London's rich literature and its musical heritage, she has created an intricate portrait of a strikingly multi-faceted metropolis. Based on extensive research, particularly into aspects not generally covered in the wide array of existing books on the city, London manages to capture the city's enticing complexity and its ruthless vitality.

This celebration of London's diverse immigrant communities is timely in the light of the societal fault lines exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit. It is a sensitive and insightful book that has a great deal to say to Londoners as well as to Britain as a whole.]]> 302 Nazneen Khan-Østrem 1472145720 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.20 London: Immigrant City
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]]> El entenado 730626 The Witness explores the relationship between existence and description, foreignness and cultural identity.

Juan Jose Saer was born in Argentina in 1937 and is considered one of Argentina's leading writers of the post-Borges generation. He died in 2005.]]> 189 Juan José Saer 9875800368 Emanuel 5 4.07 1991 El entenado
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]]> The Secret History 29044 559 Donna Tartt 1400031702 Emanuel 0 to-read 4.17 1992 The Secret History
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