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  • Ninety-Three

    de Victor Hugo ...
    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France’s greatest novelistIn the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous period with a story of courage and betrayal across the political classes. As the revolution rages, three characters – a nobleman turned revolutionary, a devoted ... Leer más

    $385 MXN

  • On Leave

    A Novel

    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable warWhen On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    de David Bellos ...
    People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Leer más

    $199 MXN

  • The Pitards (Romans Durs)

    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    Aboard a cargo ship on a hazardous voyage, ominous prophecies cause troubling misapprehensions, disputes, paranoia, and ultimately tragedy.Émile Lannec thinks it’s madness for his wife, Mathilde, to join him on the maiden voyage of his freighter, the Tonnerre-de-Dieu. She had insisted on coming, probably at the behest of her mother, Madame Pitard, who cosigned the loan to buy the ship. Predictably ... Leer más

    $178 MXN

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  • The File on H

    de Ismail Kadare ...
    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to follow them.The two ... Leer más

    $199 MXN

  • Jacques Tati

    Sein Leben und seine Kunst

    Traducido por Angelika Arend ...
    de David Bellos ...
    Jacques Tatis Monsieur Hulot, unverkennbar mit seiner Pfeife, seinem Regenschirm und seinen gestreiften Socken, war eine geniale Slapstick-Kreation, die das Publikum auf der ganzen Welt über die Absurdität des Lebens lachen ließ. David Bello’s Biografie zeichnet Tatis Aufstieg und Fall nach, von seinen Anfängen als Varieté-Mime während der Depression über den Erfolg von „Jour de Fête“ und „Mon ... Leer más

    $549 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret)

    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    Series Libro 1 - Inspector Maigret
    In this first installment in Georges Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of doubles, intrigue, and hidden crimes.When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from Interpol that Pietr the Latvian, an infamous con man, is on his way to Paris, he rushes to intercept him at the ... Leer más

    $158 MXN

  • Who Owns This Sentence?

    A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

    Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties - making ... Leer más

    $219 MXN

  • Life

    A User's Manual

    de Georges Perec ...
    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of ... Leer más

    $219 MXN

  • Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere

    A Novel

    de Georges Perec ...
    Traducido por David Bellos ...
    The posthumously published first novel from the acclaimed French author of Life: A User's Manual offers "glimpses of Perec's future greatness" ( The New Yorker).Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Novel of the Century

    The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

    de David Bellos ...
    **GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has' Boyd Tonkin, Economist'Any reader who hasn't yet embarked on Hugo's book might be converted to the idea by this one' Daniel Hahn, ... Leer más

    $219 MXN

  • Vita e arte di Jacques Tati

    de David Bellos ...
    Series Libro 21 - Di profilo
    Il personaggio creato da Jacques Tati, lo stralunatissimo Monsieur Hulot, vestito di impermeabile e cappello, con l'immancabile ombrello in mano e l'iconica pipa in bocca, è uno dei pochi personaggi universali e senza tempo che il cinema ha proposto, sulla scia di quelli creati da Buster Keaton e Charlie Chaplin. A 40 anni dalla morte del grande regista e mimo francese, ecco finalmente pubblicata ... Leer más

    $311 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus