Självbiografier

Årene på farmen i Kenya sto alltid for Karen Blixen som de rikeste i hennes liv. Hun elsket naturen i Afrika, hun var betatt av dyreverdenen der og utviklet en eiendommelig kontakt …

Escribo pegada a la tierra , dice la autora de este libro. Phil Camino comenzo esta suerte de diario de vida, o de escritura -porque para ella quizas sea lo mismo-, hace ahora diez …

Starting with the death of his father and chronicling backwards, the author examines their relationship in order to understand his dad, not just as a father, but as a man.

Il 1981 fu un anno importante. Importante per me, perché ancora una volta mi liberavo dalle catene dimettendomi dal mio impiego e scrivendo, per mia figlia, che sarebbe nata di lì …

Varje morgon går jag ner på knä med tomma öppna händer. Jag andas och försöker bara finnas till. Det är på ett sätt en del av uppdraget. Ja, jag vill formulera det just så. Vi har …

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "e;the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against …

"e;This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive …

'I am not a born writer, but I must say that when I have actually launched myself I get the profoundest and most passionate satisfaction from writing.'-Christina Stead A Web of …

”Man förstår livet baklänges – men måste leva det framlänges”, säger Søren Kierkegaard. Men vad är det man förstår när man blickar tillbaka?   Sven-Eric Liedman minns en idyllisk …

Into the life of the author, a novel appears, as if by chance, and changes everything. As a child in a music class where a remarkable teacher watches over a classmate marked for …