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Diario 1887-1905
by André GidePrimera entrega de la edición en cuatro volúmenes del monumental Diario de André Gide, considerado su obra cumbre. Se ha dicho que el Diario de André Gide llevó el género de la literatura íntima a su máxima expresión, y no cabe duda de que esta crónica pormenorizada de sus días nos abre la puerta a la vida pública y privada de una figura central de la cultura francesa y europea del siglo XX. En sus páginas aparecen las numerosas y a menudo contradictoras facetas del autor: su educación protestante, su acercamiento al catolicismo, su rechazo posterior de ambos, su matrimonio sin consumar con su prima Madelaine, la reivindicación de homosexualidad y sus opiniones políticas, incluida su crítica al estalinismo y su oposición a la intervención colonial francesa en África. Esta primera entrega, que comienza por las entradas escritas a los diciocho años de edad, es también un documento de la edución sentimental e intelectual de Gide, en el que el escritor en ciernes va dejando constancia de sus afinidades y afiliaciones artisticas hasta escribir sus primeros libros importantes. Acerca de la obra:«Mi gusto por Gide se redobla al leer su Diario.»Albert Camus «Es una excelente noticia que la editorial Debolsillo haya decidido publicar íntegramente dichos diarios [...] de la mano del crítico y editor Ignacio Echevarría, autor del excelente estudio introductorio que acompaña cada volumen.»Anna Caballé, Babelia «El Journal de Gide cuenta la historia de alguien que se pasó la vida buscando realizar su obra maestra y no la logró. O tal vez sí, tal vez sí la logró, y su obra maestra sería entonces paradójicamente ese Journal que iba reflejando la búsqueda de su obra cumbre.»Enrique Vila-Matas «Obra y Vida: el Journal, que algunos consideraban la obra cumbre de Gide, la más completa, la mas perdurable, está en el centro deesa encrucijada.»Laura Freixas «Nunca hay que leer las frases del diario de Gide como si fuesen simples constataciones, aun cuando estén en indicativo: son deseos, plegarias, órdenes, himnos, remordimientos, inculpaciones.»Jean-Paul Sartre «El Diario está escrito mucho más como un diálogo que como un monólogo. Es menos una confesión que el relato de un alma que se busca, se responde, conversa consigo misma.»Roland Barthes «Lo que tiene lugar en el Diario, considerado en su conjunto, lo que en definitiva lo sostiene y cohesiona, viene a ser lo que cabe entender por una épica de la sinceridad. La ardua conquista de una expresión cabal, verdadera y honesta de sí mismo.»Ignacio Echevarría «Una obra de arte [...], una creación.»Georges Simenon
Diario
by Katherine MansfieldLas memorias y confesiones secretas de la gran escritora neozelandesa. «La única escritura por la que he sentido envidia».Virginia Woolf «Uno de los grandes hallazgos literarios de mi vida. De los principales».Winston Manrique Sabogal, WMagazín Cuando el diario de Katherine Mansfield se publicó por primera vez en 1927, Dorothy Parker afirmó en su reseña para The New Yorker: «Lo que leemos es tan íntimo que casi me siento culpable por haber transitado estas páginas. Es un libro magnífico, pero creo que solo los grandes y tristes ojos de Katherine deberían haberlo leído». En realidad, Katherine nunca tuvo intención de publicar estos textos. Tras su muerte en 1923, su marido y editor, John M. Murry, se dedicó a rescatar todos los escritos que había dejado inéditos desde 1914 hasta tres meses antes de su deceso —fragmentos de ficción, breves notas personales, incluso los papeles donde apuntaba las cuentas domésticas— y elaboró con ellos este magnífico testimonio, que revela sus emociones y pensamientos más personales, su manera de trabajar y su amor por la vida. Lleno de agudezas, cargado de ternura y de sentido del humor, este diario es un documento excepcional para conocer en profundidad a una de las autoras más destacadas del siglo XX. Reseña: «Su escritura pareciera estar hecha de puntadas delicadas sobre un mantel precioso que cuando se tiende al sol se descubre repleto de manchas insalvables».Magalí Etchebarne «Una de las autoras más singulares, independientes y atormentadas del siglo XX. [...] Katherine Mansfield fue, en cierta forma, única en su especie».Miguel A. Delgado, El Español «Sobran razones para leer a Katherine Mansfield. [...] Provista del don de la proximidad, según Frieda Lawrence, y con una mente tremendamente sensible, en palabras de su rival literaria, Virginia Woolf. [...] Hizo que su obra prefigurara la de cuentistas tan diversos como Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Elizabeth Bowen, Mercè Rodereda, Julio Cortázar, Raymond Carver y Hebe Uhart.»Daniel Gigena, La Nación «Uno de los más sólidos, compactos y tenaces temperamentos literarios del siglo XX.»Pietro Citati «Considerada una de las mejores cuentistas en lengua inglesa, la puerta de entrada a sus pequeñas construcciones era con frecuencia un detalle mínimo al que ningún otro escritor habría dado importancia.»Laura Ferrero, ABC Cultural «Katherine Mansfield fue una persona anhelante de vida y desbordante de pasión por todo lo que deseaba, hasta arrasarlo con su fuego interior sin querer. [...] Una narradora exquisita enamorada de la belleza cuya obra gana con el tiempo. [...] Ha sido uno de los grandes hallazgos literarios de mi vida. De los principales.»Winston Manrique Sabogal, WMagazín «No resulta difícil de explicar la admiración de Virginia Woolf. Los relatos de Katherine Mansfield describen un universo de sensaciones que es también la materia sobre la que ella elabora sus novelas. Más exacto sería decir la inmateria, el espíritu. Las dos se centran en los oscuros sutiles y trascendentes repliegues del sentimiento y las impresiones más íntimas.»Soledad Puértolas, El País «Una de las mejores escritoras modernistas.»Lorna Sage «Un personaje único en la historia de la literatura reciente.»P. Unamuno, El Mundo «Mansfield era una ladrona de instantes, una observadora incansable de las microsituaciones en que se involucraba la gente a su alrededor.»InfoLibre
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People (The Alastair Campbell Diaries #2)
by Alastair CampbellPower & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to power and settle into running the country. It covers an astonishing array of events and personalities, progress and setbacks, crises and scandals, as Blair and his party make the transition from opposition to office.
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility (The Alastair Campbell Diaries #3)
by Alastair CampbellPOWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, changing the course of both the Bush presidency and the Blair premiership. In this volume, we see that New Labour's honeymoon is well and truly over. In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top, here we find graphic accounts of a variety of domestic crises: foot-and-mouth disease and protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt. Volume Three includes Peter Mandelson's second resignation, the agonies of the Millennium Dome, and the most unexpected slow-handclapping in memory, when the Women's Institute turned against Tony Blair. Yet despite all the problems - not least the most accident-prone manifesto launch in history, complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter - Labour won a second successive landslide election victory. That triumph is intimately recorded here, alongside the high points of this period, such as devolution to Northern Ireland and the fall of Milosevic.
Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power (The Alastair Campbell Diaries #1)
by Alastair CampbellAs Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude to Power is the first of four volumes, and covers the early days of New Labour, culminating in their victory at the polls in 1997.Volume 1 details the extraordinary tensions between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as they resolved the question as to which one should stand to become Labour leader. It shows that right from the start, relations at the top were prone to enormous strain, suspicions and accusations of betrayal. Yet it also shows the political and personal bonds that tied them together, and which made them one of the most feared and respected electoral machines anywhere in the world. A story of politics in the raw, Prelude to Power is above all an intimate, detailed portrait of the people who have done so much to shape modern history.
Diaries & Selected Letters (Oneworld Classics Ser.)
by Mikhail BulgakovThis volume of personal writings offers an intimate view of the celebrated Russian author&’s life and creative process in the face of Soviet censorship. Best known for his biting satire of Soviet society, The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov kept meticulous journals, written with keen humor and insight, about his day to day life in Moscow as well as the wider social and political life of early 20th century Russia. But his diaries stop midway through the 1920s—the Bolshevik secret police raided his apartment and confiscated his private notebooks in 1926. After that incident, Bulgakov began chronicling his thoughts in letters. Writing mostly to friends and family, he also sent letters to literary contemporaries like Maxim Gorky and Yevgeny Zamyatin, and even to Joseph Stalin. These correspondences are both bitingly funny and full of pain, mundane and sublime. This selection of Bulgakov&’s private writings provides a fascinating glimpse into a period of Russian history and literature that was alive with creative energy yet darkened by the iron grip of censorship. The Alma Classics edition of Diaries and Selected Letters is translated by Roger Cockrell with the authorization of the Bulgakov Estate. Cockrell translation reflects the clear, humorous, and profound language of the original with colloquial English idioms and phrasings.
Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia [A Graphic Novel History]
by Nora KrugPowerful graphic journalism that highlights the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist grappling with their own individual experiences of Russia&’s war on Ukraine—collected, edited, and illustrated by award-winning author Nora KrugImmediately after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug reached out to two anonymous subjects—&“K.,&” a Ukrainian journalist, and &“D.,&” a Russian artist—and began what would become a year of correspondence. Based on her weekly interviews with K. and D., Krug created this collection of illustrated accounts that chronicles two contrasting viewpoints from opposing sides of the first year in this ongoing war.With millions displaced, injured, or killed as a result of the invasion, Krug presents a look at the devastating effects on an everyday, individual level. K.&’s diary documents a year of emotional and existential distress. She experiences loss in every sense of the word: the death of those close to her, the disconnection from her family and friends, and the devastation of her country—but her account is also a story about bravery and survival in the face of dire uncertainty.In juxtaposition, D.&’s narrative details his disdain for his government&’s murderous actions and his attempts at emigrating his family abroad. He navigates his own struggle with cultural identity, guilt, and lack of action in the face of a tyrannical regime—a perspective that is necessary in challenging readers to confront the political actions of their own countries. Krug approaches Diaries of War with the immense skill and thoughtfulness required to document these two complicated experiences for the purpose of encouraging critical thinking.Published as an Op-Comic series with the Los Angeles Times, with a portion of the entries unique to this book, Diaries of War is a harrowing real-time record of an international conflict that continues to devastate countless lives.
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
by Cathy PorterAfter marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the renowned author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Sofia Tolstoy kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Her life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband but was tormented by him. She lived against the background of one of the most turbulent periods in her country's history, as old feudal Russia was transformed by three revolutions and three major international wars. Yet it is as Sofia Tolstoy's own life story-the study of one woman's private experience-that these diaries are most valuable and moving. They reveal a woman of tremendous vital energy and poetic sensibility who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life and to remain indomitable.
The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford
by D.J.H CliffordNoblewoman, vividly documents both the great and the trivial events of her long life. They cover her life from her childhood days, when she witnessed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I, to her last months, when she recalled her past from her room in Brougham Castle. Through compiling and transcribing the manuscript records, D.J.H. Clifford here presents in one volume the full range of Lady Anne's life: her active role at court as the Countess of Dorset (residing at Knole in Kent), her turbulent second marriage to the 4th Earl of Pembroke at Wilton Wiltshire, and her final, long-disputed succession to her father's lands in Westmorland and North Yorkshire. The diaries are complemented by explanatory notes, family trees and illustrations. They provide both an important historical record and an intriguing glimpse into the and character of this noble and Christian lady, whose powerful presence is still in evidence today in the monuments and folklore of Westmorland.
The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)
by Franz KafkaAn essential new translation of the author&’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century&’s most influential writers. "This new and scrupulously faithful translation of the Diaries brings us...the true inner life of the twentieth century&’s most complex and enigmatic literary prophet." —Cynthia Ozick, author of AntiquitiesDating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted from previous publications. By faithfully reproducing the diaries&’ distinctive—and often surprisingly unpolished—writing in Kafka&’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author&’s use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.
The Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald Vol 1
by Ben P RobertsonAn energetic woman, Inchbald achieved fame as an actress, novelist, playwright and critic. This work includes her eleven surviving diaries, which record Inchbald's social contacts and professional activities, itemize her day-to-day expenditure, and chart the development of affairs such as the Napoleonic Wars and the trial of Queen Caroline.
The Diaries Of Charles Greville
by Edward PearceCharles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria. Finally, in 1860, after shaking his head over the worrying triumphs of Garibaldi, he closed it, once and for all. The grandson of a duke, Greville looked with a level and scornful eye upon royalty. George was 'the most worthless dog that ever lived'; William 'the silliest old gentleman in his own dominions, but what can be expected of a man with a head like a pineapple?' The diaries roused Queen Victoria - 'an odd woman' - from the lethargy of her widowhood.She spoke of Greville's 'indiscretion, indelicacy, ingratitude toward friends, betrayal of confidence and shameful disloyalty'.Greville's circle included Talleyrand, Wellington, Macaulay, Sydney Smith, Princess Lieven, Lord Grey, Melbourne, Guizot and Disraeli, as well as 'jockeys, bookmakers and blackguards'.As Clerk of the Privy Council, Greville works for a compromise on the Reform Bill.He witnesses Covent Garden theatre burning down.His closest friend, Lord De Ros, is caught cardsharping. Visiting Balmoral, he finds Albert and Victoria living 'not merely like small gentlefolks, but like very small gentlefolks'. When cholera comes, he writes laconically of 'Mrs Smith, young and beautiful, taken ill while dressing for Church and dead by nightfall.' Not a chatterbox, Charles Greville brilliantly assembles everyone else's chatter. This is the intelligent voice of another age, an uneasy aristocrat catching history on the turn and looking dubiously at the future.
Diaries of an Adventurer: "Journeys of a solo woman to the ends of Earth"
by Daniela ZavalaMixing current events, culture, adventure, history, humor and high doses of adrenaline, "Diaries of an Adventurer" series is a close and authentic look at remote societies and controversial countries around the world. In each travelogue, journalist, and intrepid adventurer Daniela Zavala immerses herself with ceaseless curiosity into exotic cultures and dangerous destinations that can only be comprehended with an open mind, easiness and never-ending inquisitiveness. Since 1997, Daniela has visited solo over 70 countries without fear or prejudice, exploring places that most people wouldn't dare to go or might not even know about. In this edition, Daniela ventures to Iran just a few months after the controversial 2009's presidential election. This land rich in culture has been polemic and feared by the Western world. But, how is the Islamic Republic really like? What's in the mind of the average Iranian? Daniela's experience brings you closer to this fascinating and so-talked about nation.
Diaries of a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke Edward Snow Michael Winkler"In the diaries [Rilke] kept from 1898 to 1900, now translated for the first time . . . the overall impression is that of a genius just coming into his own powers."--Boston Phoenix In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet twenty-three, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. The project quickly expanded to include not only thoughts on life, history, and artistic genius, but also unguarded moments of revulsion, self-doubt, and manic expectation. The result is an intimate glimpse into the young Rilke, already experimenting brilliantly with language and metaphor. "For the lover of Rilke, this superb translation of the poet's early diaries will be a watershed. Through Edward Snow's and Michael Winkler's brilliantly supple and faithful translation . . . a new and more balanced picture of Rilke will emerge."--Ralph Freedman
The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox
by Lilly MilesSEX, DRUGS, HEARTBREAK AND SCANDAL - THE INNER WORKINGS OF A TABLOID NEWSROOMFleet Street Fox's anonymity allows her to delve deep into the dark corners of that most guilty of pleasures - the tabloid exposé. Acerbic, funny, and revelatory, her diaries show the heart within the hack as she tries to recover from a betrayal as devastating as any newspaper scandal.Now an internet smash, with over forty thousand followers on twitter, two hugely popular blogs and a reputation throughout the media industry, Foxy's diaries are juicy, shocking and as near to the knuckle as the lawyers would allow. The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox tells the truth about her trade: the private scandals, victories and disasters that don't end up on the front page. This is the hardest story she has ever told.
Diaries: In Power
by Alan ClarkThe second volume of Alan Clark's bestselling DIARIES, covering the downfall of Margaret ThatcherThe first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power.
Diaries, 1984-1997
by Michael Bloch James Lees-MilneThis final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully aware of the yuppy trends of the Thatcher era, while he predicts that the New Labour victory will bring 'a descent into American-style vulgarity and yob culture'. Witty, waspish, poignant and candid, James Lees-Milne's last diaries contain as much to delight as the first, and confirm his reputation as one of the great commentators of his times.
Diaries, 1984-1997
by Michael Bloch James Lees-MilneThis final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully aware of the yuppy trends of the Thatcher era, while he predicts that the New Labour victory will bring 'a descent into American-style vulgarity and yob culture'. Witty, waspish, poignant and candid, James Lees-Milne's last diaries contain as much to delight as the first, and confirm his reputation as one of the great commentators of his times.
Diaries, 1971-1983
by Michael Bloch James Lees-MilneFunny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce Chatwin and the Mitford sisters) and the diarist's varied emotional experiences. Having made his name as the National Trust's country houses expert and a writer on architecture, he now established himself as a novelist and biographer. With some misgivings he published his wartime diaries, little imagining that it was as a diarist that he would achieve lasting fame.
Diaries, 1971-1983
by James Lees-Milne Michael BlochFunny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce Chatwin and the Mitford sisters) and the diarist's varied emotional experiences. Having made his name as the National Trust's country houses expert and a writer on architecture, he now established himself as a novelist and biographer. With some misgivings he published his wartime diaries, little imagining that it was as a diarist that he would achieve lasting fame.
Diaries, 1942-1954
by Michael Bloch James Lees-MilneThe diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.
Diaries, 1942-1954
by Michael Bloch James Lees-MilneThe diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.
Diaries, 1910-1923
by Franz KafkaThese diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka's death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka's accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.From the Trade Paperback edition.ruggles and triumphs in expressing himself as a writer.Now, for the first time in this country, the complete diaries of Franz Kafka are available in one volume. They are not only indispensable to an understanding of Kafka the man and the artist, but are a compulsively readable, haunting account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Diaries: In Power
by Alan ClarkThe second volume of Alan Clark's bestselling DIARIES, covering the downfall of Margaret ThatcherThe first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power.
Diaries: Into Politics
by Alan ClarkThe first volume of the 20th century's most phenomenally successful diaries, published alongside first paperback of THE LAST DIARIES.INTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries Michael Howard and Norman Fowler). Alan Clark describes his election to the Commons in the 1974 general election; his years as a backbencher coincide with Edward Heath as PM, his downfall and the arrival of Margaret Thatcher. This volume ends with the inside story of the Falklands War.In his private life Alan and his wife Jane and their two young sons take over Saltwood Castle, previously the home of his father Kenneth (Civilisation) Clark. His enthusiasms for the estate, skiing, fast cars and girls are never far away.