Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


Serie m´´as popular en Estados Unidos

1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “alexander spektor”
Skip side bar filters

  • Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

    Biography for the Masses

    de Carol Ueland, Ludmilla A. Trigos, J.A.E. Curtis, Radislav Lapushin, Catherine O’Neil, Alexandra Smith, Alexander Spektor, Jonathan Stone, Angela Brintlinger0, Irene Masing-Delic1, Caryl Emerson2 ...
    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Countries That Don’t Exist

    Selected Nonfiction

    de Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ...
    Series series
    Almost unknown during his lifetime, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is now hailed as a master of Russian prose. His short stories and novels, unpublishable under Stalinism but rediscovered long after his death, have drawn comparisons to the works of Jorge Luis Borges for their distinctive blend of metafictional play and philosophical thought experiment. Like Borges, Krzhizhanovsky also wrote dazzlingly ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    de Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Traducido por Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Film Form

    Essays in Film Theory

    de Sergei Eisenstein ...
    A classic on the aesthetics of filmmaking from the pioneering Soviet director who made Battleship Potemkin.Though he completed only a half-dozen films, Sergei Eisenstein remains one of the great names in filmmaking, and is also renowned for his theory and analysis of the medium. Film Form collects twelve essays, written between 1928 and 1945, that demonstrate key points in the development of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Language and Silence

    Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

    de George Steiner ...
    The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. "A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves" ( The New York Times Book Review).Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Literature and the Gods

    de Roberto Calasso ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature.From the banishment of the classical divinities ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • George Steiner at The New Yorker

    de George Steiner ...
    An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine.Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to intellectuals but to “the common reader.” He possesses a famously ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

    An Essay in the Old Criticism

    de George Steiner ...
    The first book of criticism from the acclaimed author of After Babel—a "provocative and probing" look at Russian literature's most influential writers ( The New York Times)."Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner's conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Strong Opinions

    de Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Strong Opinions offers Nabokov's trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita. • "First published in 1973, this collection of interviews and essays offers an intriguing insight into one of the most brilliant authors of the 20th century." - The GuardianNabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Reflections

    Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

    de Walter Benjamin ...
    The towering twentieth century thinker delve into literature, philosophy, and his own life experience in this "extraordinary collection" ( Publishers Weekly).A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Ecce Homo

    How To Become What You Are

    de Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Traducido por Duncan Large ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled 'How To Become What ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Bowstring

    On the Dissimilarity of the Similar

    de Viktor Shklovsky ...
    Traducido por Shushan Avagyan ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    “Myths do not flow through the pipes of history,” writes Viktor Shklovsky, “they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar.” Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work, in which Shklovsky redefines estrangement (ostranenie) as a device of the literary comparatist—the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus