Witty and caustic, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. In the story of the trials and travails of the youthful Candide, his mentor Dr. Pangloss, and a host of other characters, Voltaire mercilessly satirizes and exposes rom…
La gloire d'Alan Turing commence vers la fin du XXe siècle, bien longtemps après sa mort. Il aura donc fallu attendre l'informatisation du monde, la divulgation de ses activités de décryptage durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la levée des tabous sur l'homosexualité, pour que …
Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe'Borges, Bierce, Celine, CortAzar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet'he lays bare the inner work…
"Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe - Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet - he lays bare the inner…
In the tradition of Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers, revealing in the process his deepest beliefs about the world of letters. A literary apprenticeship in el…
