Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 and died on August 3, 1964. She was an American novelist and short story writer well known for her Southern Gothic style. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously, […]

Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 and died on August 3, 1964. She was an American novelist and short story writer well known for her Southern Gothic style. Her Complete Stories, published posthumously, […]
Stefan Zweig nació el 28 de noviembre del 1881 en Viena y falleció el 22 de febrero del 1942 en Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Fue novelista, dramaturgo, periodista y biógrafo. Vamos a leer Mendel […]
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, was born on March 31st, 1809 and died on March 4th, 1852. He was a Russian novelist and playwright of Ukrainian origin. While he critiqued the Russian elite and […]
Herbert George Wells nació el 21 de septiembre del 1866 y falleció el 13 de agosto del 1946. Fue un autor prolífico, escribiendo novelas, cuentos, comentario social, historia, sátira, biografía y autobiografía. Es llamado el […]
Why read when there are so many other forms of entertainment available? Harold Bloom, renowned literary critic writes that reading should not be abandoned because it is a «difficult pleasure» but it should be […]
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland and died on January 13, 1941. He was a world renowned Irish author or Ulysses (1922) and Dubliners (1914). «For myself, I […]
Iván Serguéyevich Turguénev, Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, nació en Oriol, Imperio Ruso el 28 de octubre del 1818 y murió en Bougival, Francia el 22 de agosto 1883. Fue uno de los grandes escritores rusos del […]
Ernest Hemingway, (julio 1899 – julio 1961) nació en Illinois y murió en Idaho, Estados Unidos después de una larga vida como periodista, novelista y autor de numerosos cuentos cortos. Por su ficción ganó un […]
Zadie Smith was born in London in 1975. She was educated at Hampstead Comprehensive and King’s, Cambridge, where she occasionally performed as a singer and actor. Her story, «The Embassy of Cambodia» originally appeared in The New […]
ut nihil non iisdem verbis redderetur auditum El jueves, 8 de noviembre a las 19:30 hs. nos veremos en La Biela de Plaza Francia en Recoleta para charlar sobre el cuento, «Funes el memorioso» […]