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A reader of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dostoevsky, he was a writer, playwright, photographer, and anti-Tsarist activist, close to Gorky, with whom he fell out over the publication of \"The Darkness\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rebellious genius, recognized as one of the greatest of Russian literature, he died in Finland, exiled, a prisoner of alcohol, alone and in poverty, at the age of 48. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong his most notable works are \"The Seven Hanged Men\" and \"The Red Laughter\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antígona","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45211030880522,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/ASTREVASEOUTROSCONTOS.jpg?v=1708291790"},{"product_id":"despachos","title":"Dispatches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 27, Michael Herr lands in Saigon. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I went to cover the war, and the war covered me.” \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA decade later, he publishes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDispatches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, one of the most intense accounts of the Vietnam War, the conflict that shook the United States to its foundations, marking the end of a certain innocence. And\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis book plunges us into episodes of extraordinary violence, and the reader feels spat into the very heart of the whirlwind, from Khe Sanh to the Mekong Delta, to the sound of Jimi Hendrix and the explosion of mortar shells. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWelcomed by the public as a genuine fresco of the war, it reveals, with coldness and lucidity, the portrait of the combatant’s most intimate drives. Relentless, Herr always tells us what we do not want to hear, confronts us with our ghosts and leaves us breathless. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBaring the absurd and monstrous dimension of the bellicose spirit, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDispatches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e denounces the American incomprehension and resentment in the face of the unconquerable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antígona","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45211038384394,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/DESPACHOS.jpg?v=1708440224"},{"product_id":"eden","title":"Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt Maldita, we read. \u003cbr\u003eWe will never forget. \u003cbr\u003eWe are still recovering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in France in 1970, it saw its sale and advertising banned:\u003cem\u003e Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité\u003c\/em\u003e, were it not for the backdrop of a war-torn Algeria.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA petition signed by names such as Simone de Beauvoir, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Blanchot, Max Ernst, and Italo Calvino implored for its \"liberation\". It was to no avail. It took 50 years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Portuguese, we have to thank DeStrauss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[…] In his text, perhaps for the first time, the relationship between the individual and sexuality is clearly and decisively inverted; it is no longer the characters who fade away in favour of elements, structures, and personal pronouns, but sexuality that inverts the individual's situation and ceases to be \"subordinate\". As he approached this point, he was forced to strip away that which made the Tomb accessible; he had to burst all forms and all bodies, accelerate the entire great machinery of sexuality, and let it repeat itself along the straight line of time. He will have to count, I fear (I was about to say: I hope, but it is too easy when it comes to someone else), on considerable opposition… There will be scandal, but it is about something else entirely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichel Foucault\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DeStrauss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45212395274506,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/00-28.png?v=1740168196"},{"product_id":"os-caes-ladram-facas","title":"The dogs bark at knives","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"663\"\u003eBukowski at his purest: lucid, grotesque and almost tender. In this collection of poems, he confronts old age, love, alcohol and loneliness with the irony that made him immortal. There are women, horse races, bars, bills to pay and the shadow of death haunting every verse. 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A group portrait told through a reimagining of mythology, an explosive manifesto about the strength, pain and will to survive of a group of trans women who wanted to be queens: «What nature does not give, hell lends.»\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThat was the origin of this book, that is the alchemy that runs through its pages: the transformation of shame, fear, intolerance, contempt and misunderstanding into high-quality prose. Because As Malditas is a story of childhood and a ritual of initiation, a fairy tale and a horror story, a group portrait, a political manifesto, an explosive memoir, a guided tour of its author's dazzling imagination and a unique chronicle that comes to pollinate literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIn its DNA converge the two facets of the trans world that most repel and frighten polite society: the fury of being trans and the party of being trans. And in its literary voice converge the three parts of Camila's holy trinity: the Marguerite Duras part, the Wisława Szymborska part and the Carson McCullers part. The appropriation of Lorca and Jean Cocteau that Camila made on stage is once again seen in these pages with what she managed to extract from Duras, Szymborska and Carson, without losing at any moment that essential Cordoban cadence she maintains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eTo put it plainly, As Malditas is the kind of book we want the whole world to read, as soon as we finish it. (Juan Forn)\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"989\"\u003eCamila Sosa Villada\u003c\/strong\u003e (born in 1982, in La Falda, Argentina) is an actress, poet and writer. She has become one of the most intense voices in contemporary Latin American literature. A trans woman, she transforms her experience into an aesthetic and political battlefield. 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