The power of words

Name: The power of words
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501099907
Price: 84.90 BRL
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Autor: Betty Milan

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Sinopse

Here, winners of the most important literary prizes from various countries parade, such as the Italian Strega (Claudio Magris), the French Femina, Médicis, and Goncourt (Alvaro Mutis, Hector Bianciotti, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Dominique Fernandez, Andrei Makine), the Machado de Assis Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Gilberto Freyre), and the National Book Prize from the United States (Gregory Rabassa). And, of course, two Nobel Prize winners for Literature: Mexico's Octavio Paz and China's Gao Xingjian. Also present is a team of women who shine in essays and fiction, such as psychoanalyst Catherine Millot, a scholar of the links between sex, gender, and literature; Hélène Cixous, a specialist in Clarice Lispector; Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, biographer of Evita and Maradona; Françoise Giroud, journalist and inaugural Minister for the Status of Women in France; Michèle Sarde, biographer of Marguerite Yourcenar and scholar of French women; Juliette Minces, an authority on the status of women in the Muslim world; and the darling of readers and film buffs of the 1950s and 1960s, Françoise Sagan. A thoughtful journey that always begins with a book, The Power of Words has a topic for every intelligent reader—from architecture to miscegenation; from the exile of the artist to the screenplay as literature; from the corruption of politicians to the disrepute of James Joyce in his homeland; from the war on AIDS to psychoanalysis; from the status of the author to that of a mere scribe for the writer... the topics always drift toward unexpected and surprising focuses in a book of interviews that is unusual because the interviewer is unusual.