Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.''br>br>Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain''s greatest living writer.br>br>Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Javier Marias, Javier Marías
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780241339480
• ISBN: 978-0-241-33948-0
• Pagine: 64
• Dimensioni: 112 mm x 161 mm x 6 mm
• Serie: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary