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Raül Garrigasait
Raül Garrigasait i Colomés ( Solsona, 1979) is a Catalan translator from Greek and German to Catalan language. His first book was an essay on classical erudition. His first novel, ''Els estranys'', won the 2017 Catalan booksellers' Prize and the 2017 Òmnium Prize. He has translated works by Plato, Goethe, Alexandros Papadiamandis, Joseph Roth, and Peter Sloterdijk, among other writers, and presently heads La Casa dels Clàssics (House of the Classics), a project initiated by the Bernat Metge Collection with the aim of promoting the creation, thought and dissemination of universal classics in the Catalan language. Works * ''La tendra mà de cada arrel'' (The tender hand of each root) (Viena edicions, 2005) * ''El gos cosmopolita i dos espècimens més'' (The Cosmopolitan Dog and Two Other Specimens] (A Contravent, 2012) * ''Els estranys'' (Edicions de 1984, 2017) translated to English by Tiago Miller and published by Fum d'Estampa (2021) * 2018: ''El fugitiu que no se'n va'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Alexandros Papadiamantis
Alexandros Papadiamantis ( ; 4 March 1851 – 3 January 1911) was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet. Biography Papadiamantis was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean Sea. The island would figure prominently in his work. His father was a priest. He moved to Athens as a young man to complete his high school studies, and enrolled at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens, but never completed his studies. This happened because he had economic difficulties, and had to find a job to make a living. He returned to his native island in later life, where he would spend the rest of his life and eventually pass away there in 1911. He supported himself by writing throughout his adult life, anything from journalism and short stories to several serialized novels. From a certain point onwards he had become very popular, and newspapers and magazines vied for his writings, offering him substantial fees. Papadiamant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ara Llibres
Ara may refer to: Biology * ''Ara'' (bird), a genus of parrots * Ara (fish) (''Niphon spinosus''), a species of fish *L-arabinose operon, also known as ara Places * Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia *Ara, Bihar, a city in India * Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India *Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India * Ara, Iran, a village in Iran *'Ara, a village in Israel * Ara (lake), a lake in Norway * Arakawa River (other), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan * River Ara, Ireland People Given name *Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero * Ara Ball, Canadian film director * Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge * Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer *Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model *Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach *Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus *Ara Guler (1928-2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edicions De 1984
Edicions de 1984 is an independent publishing house in Catalonia specialized in up-market literature which was founded in 1984 by Josep Cots as an homage to George Orwell. Josep Cots, the current director and editor-in-chief, and his team have been building up the company’s catalogue which includes some of the most important authors of all times. The catalogue, which has around 450 active titles, includes translations of all genres (novel, poetry, theatre and essay) and works by catalan authors. Edicions de 1984 publishes around twenty-five titles per year and it follows an author policy. Among its authors, the catalogue includes foreign authors like Claudio Magris, Saunders, Strout, Jennifer Egan, Davis, Whitman, Chalandon, Binet, Fallada, Döblin, Balzac, Hugo, Grimaldi, Grimal, Giono, Gide, Buzzati, Berger, Leroy, Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk (; ; born 26 June 1947) is a German philosopher and cultural theorist. He was a professor of philosophy and media theory at and Rector from 2001 to 2015 of the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. He co-hosted the German television show '' Das Philosophische Quartett'' from 2002 until 2012. Biography Sloterdijk's father was Dutch, his mother German. He studied philosophy, German studies and history at the University of Munich and the University of Hamburg from 1968 to 1974. In 1975, he received his PhD from the University of Hamburg. In the 1980s, he worked as a freelance writer, and published his '' Kritik der zynischen Vernunft'' in 1983. Sloterdijk has since published a number of philosophical works acclaimed in Germany. In 2001, he was named chancellor of the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe, part of the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. His best-known Karlsruhe student and former assistant is Marc Jongen, a member of the Bundestag. In 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Roth
Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga '' Radetzky March'' (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life ''Job'' (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English as '' The Wandering Jews''), a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the 21st century, publications in English of ''Radetzky March'' and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in Roth. Biography Joseph Roth was born into a Jewish family and grew up in Brody (currently in Ukraine), a small town near Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) in East Galicia, in the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire. Jewish culture played an important role in the life of the town, which had a large Jewish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Political philosophy#European Enlightenment, political, and Western philosophy, philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present.. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bibliography, his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in 1775 following the success of his first novel, ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' (1774), and joined a thriving intellectual and cultural environment under the patronage of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess Anna Amalia that formed the basis of Weimar Classicism. He was ennobled by Karl August, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solsona, Lleida
Solsona () is a municipality and capital of the ''comarca'' of the Solsonès in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of . It is situated in the centre of the ''comarca'' in the Catalan Central Depression. It is served by the C-55 road to Manresa, and is linked to Berga and Bassella by the C-26. Until a few years ago, Solsona used to be the main road used by people from Barcelona to go to Andorra. The name most probably derives from the Setelsis () mentioned by Ptolemy as a town of the tribe of Iacetani in Hispania Tarraconensis. The old town is known as the ''Nucli antic'': it preserves a large part of its fortifications. The cathedral A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ... of Santa Maria de Solsona and the episcopal palace are in a neoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plato
Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in History of Athens, Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism. Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms, theory of forms (or ideas), which aims to solve what is now known as the problem of universals. He was influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, although much of what is known about them is derived from Plato himself. Along with his teacher Socrates, and his student Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. Plato's complete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
