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Kafka y sus traductores: un fascinante fresco de historia literaria del siglo XX.¿Qué ocurre con la obra de un escritor cuando se traduce? ¿Y qué sucede cuando ese escritor se llama Franz Kafka? Desde mediados de los años veinte, un puñado de autores dieron nueva vida a sus obras fuera del idioma y el lugar en los que fueron concebidas, salvandolas del olvido al que pretendian condenarlas las autoridades sovieticas y nazis.Bruno Schulz lo tradujo al polaco antes de ser asesinado de un tiro por un miembro de la Gestapo, Milena Jesenska lo vertio con precision al checo antes de ser deportada, y Jorge Luis Borges, al español, antes de perder la vista. Paul Celan y Primo Levi lo tradujeron, al rumano y al italiano, a la luz de su paso por los campos de concentracion. Sus traductores rusos trabajaron en la clandestinidad. Y en cuanto al poeta Melech Ravitch, lo traslado al yidis para un publico practicamente desaparecido tras la guerra.Con una prosa clara y poetica, atravesada por un sutil sentido del humor, Maia Hruska explora la traduccion no como un ejercicio de fidelidad, sino como una experiencia transformadora: una relacion amorosa, un laberinto, una criatura viva. Galardonado con el Premio François Billetdoux, el Transfuge al mejor ensayo, el Premio Malraux de ensayo sobre arte y el Gran Premio de la Critica Literaria del PEN Club frances, este estudio vivo y erudito nos embarca en un viaje por los grandes nombres de la literatura europea y los episodios mas oscuros del siglo XX, con Kafka, siempre, como punto de partida y de retorno.

An inspirational keepsake from the multiple award-winning writer and activistDynamic and legendary, poet and activist Sonia Sanchez is one of the most esteemed poets in contemporary American literature. Now for her fans and new readers alike comes this giftable quote book, containing some of her most powerful writing from her previously published volumes and in an attractive, paper-over-board package.With nearly 40 verses and quotations, this collection explores themes of love, resistance, and social justice. Sample excerpts include:On love: your hands/humming hurricanes of beauty.On resistance: "I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.On social justice: "...if we the people work, organize, resist,come together for peace, racial, socialand sexual justiceitll get betteritll get better.A prominent member of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and a pioneer in education, Sanchezs career has spanned decades, spawned more than 20 books and countless other writings, with Sanchez herself receiving numerous accolades and awards. Carefully selected to inspire, and perfect for casual reading and contemplation, this is the ideal gift for fans and new readers alike.

"A monumental reflection in time, through blackness into light."Steve McQueen, artist and Academy Award-winning filmmakerThinking from Black performs the unworlding needed for alternate futures. It emancipates and facilitates meaning-making away from a colonialist orientation toward a globalizing storytelling that sets new frequencies, and logics without outcome. In a moment of great cultural, political, and social uncertainty, Thinking from Black curates, animates, demonstrates how we can language our way to new beginnings. This collection is a necessary inspiration, not to be refused.Claudia Rankine, acclaimed poet, author and playwrightAn essential work for Alchemy by Knopf, this book collects a living, breathing lexicon: words, terms, concepts, and ideas that take the multiplicity of Black life as the point of departure.Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributorsthe Practicing Refusal Collectiveare visual artists, poets, dancers, historians, writers, architects, painters, theorists, activists, anthropologists, filmmakers, educators, and musicians. Each has engaged with the idea of a lexicon of Black living and taken up the invitation to think from Black in relation to their own medium. Some terms are enunciated in a poetic registersuch as Redaction, Seeing, and Song. Some are aspirationalsuch as Solidarity, Garden, and Care. Some entries, such as BlackSound, Fantasy, Mathematics, and Dispossession, work in a more theoretical idiom. Words such as Gesture and Syncopation are composed of both text and drawings, and summon the body in motion. The word Time, which is defined twice, carries with it musicality, duration and refusal. Together, these definitions offer a sense of some of the many ways that Black people tend to each other and the world. Read in relation to each other, the terms create a rich, startling lexicon that is eclectic, elliptical, cross-genre, historical, speculative, and literarya set of words, phrases, concepts, and ideas that are part of the many languages constituting and animating Black life. Thinking from Black is a book to be read with others, as it was created. It is a book to live and think and act with, in the world.

A theory of the formal structure of commonsense concepts.In Conceptual Form, Sandeep Prasada develops a new and original approach to the study of commonsense concepts. He argues that lexically expressible concepts such as DOG possess a formal structurea conceptual formwhich provides perspectives for thinking, talking, and reasoning. These perspectives are not a property of the things the concept represents. Rather, they are mental lenses, or ways of thinking and talking. The conceptual form functions as a mental lens by providing instructions for how to think and talk about what the concept represents.The book is unique in its focus on the formal dimension of commonsense concepts, its original proposal for how the type-token distinction is realized within our conceptual systems, its proposal that the core of concepts involves the acquisition of principles, not facts and generalizations, and its detailed consideration of linguistic and experimental data in the formulation of the theory of conceptual form. Finally, this book provides a new perspective on classic questions concerning the atomicity and innateness of concepts. Even those who disagree with specific claims are likely to find the theoretical tools and distinctions introduced by the theory of conceptual form to be valuable in their investigation of concepts.

A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this will surely be my philosophy book of the year. Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly PossibleFrom leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its unlikely domination of American cultureWhen Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French authors. This was French theory, a set of recondite ideas that had taken American campuses by a storm during the preceding decades. In retrospect, the influence of these men and their writings seems both extraordinary and improbable. The Frenchmen argued that language is all-powerful, meaning unstable, and the self is an illusion. Their prose was brilliant, dazzling even, but often mystifyingly elaborate and highly abstract. Yet American students and scholars flocked to their books and lectures, intoxicated by a powerful new means of understandingand perhaps even changingthe world. For Eakin, an unsophisticated graduate of a small-town Midwestern high school, theory was no mere intellectual exercise but a way of beinga heady shortcut to worldly glamour and wisdom.The Frenchmen is the story of Eakins youthful love affair with French theory, alongside a wider examination of its rise and fall. Looking closely at Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, and the French-speaking Belgian Paul de Man, Eakin untangles their famously difficult works with peerless, delightful clarity. Whats more, she brings to light the eccentric, scandalousat times criminal!lives of thinkers who themselves were often highly averse to biography, in a daringly original weave of storytelling and exegesis.As she explores the magnetism of their work, Eakin illuminates not just the Frenchmens enduring legacy but some of todays deepest political, social, and intellectual arguments. She neither rejects nor flatters the Frenchmens ideas but instead reveals how they indelibly changed our understanding of power, truth, and identity. Eakin shows how, for better or worse, the Frenchmen continue to shape and unsettle our lives today.

One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language The Sunday TimesA Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of the greatest living English poets. Originally delivered as a lecture series at Trinity College, Cambridge, in A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley meditates upon the emphasis we place upon the persona of the poet, relegating their actual poetry to a second-order importance. Prize culture and the primacy of the poet as opposed to the poem transform criticism into a beauty contest, constraining our ability to meet the lyric on its own terms.What, Riley asks, might be discovered about the purpose of poetry, its originary point within our language and more yet besides, when we liberate it from the persona of the author? In allowing the poem to speak, what might we hear?Including a foreword by leading poet and critic Don Paterson

A witty and thought-provoking collection from of Americas beloved humorist.Known for his razor-sharp wit, irreverent humor, and profound insights into the human condition, Mark Twains words continue to captivate readers across generations. The Mark Twain Book of Quotes showcases his best lines on everything from society and politics to lifes simplest pleasures and deepest absurdities.Whether youre drawn to Twains playful humor or his biting critiques of human nature, this collection offers a glimpse into the mind of a literary genius. From the timeless, "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please" to his reflections on travel, human nature, politics, learning and the quirks of life, Twains observations remain as relevant and impactful today as when they were first written.Perfect for fans of Twain, lovers of classic literature, or anyone who appreciates a well-placed turn of phrase, The Mark Twain Book of Quotes is a delightful companion. This book is an essential addition to any bookshelf, offering both laughter and insight while reminding us of the power of words to inspire and entertain.

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writers work when it is translatedspecifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maia Hruska traces the strange, shape-shifting legacy of one of literatures most elusive figuresnot through traditional biography but through the lives of his earliest and most influential translators. With rigor and elan, she shows us how our understanding of Kafka is inevitably filtered through these voices, many of whom were, or would become, major writers and thinkers in their own right.Jorge Luis Borges rendered Kafka into Spanish, recognizing in him a fellow architect of the infinite. Primo Levi used the German he acquired in a concentration camp to bring The Trial into Italian despite the psychoanalytic repulsion he felt toward Kafka. Bruno Schulz published his Polish edition of the same novel before being shot by a Nazi officer. Vladimir Nabokov annotated The Metamorphosis in exile, having undergone his own transformationfrom native to foreigner. Milena Jesenska, Kafkas great love, translated him into Czech, a language he was both surrounded by and estranged from.What emerges across these essays isnt just a portrait of a legendary writer and his translators but also a portrait of the twentieth century itselfits fractures and displacements, its aesthetic revolutions, its ethical crises. Part cultural history, part group biography, Kafkaesque is a dazzling meditation on language, identity, and the irreducible strangeness of reading and being read.