Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
By: Azar Nafisi
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power…
Want to Read $ 18.99"To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
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1. Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
By: Howard Sounes
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Ch… read more
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2. Scrivere è un tic
By: Francesco Piccolo
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
?Por que escriben los escritores? ?Como se inicia la vocacion? ?Es realmente la escritura un oficio… read more
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3. Chi dice e chi tace
By: Chiara Valerio
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more
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4. Quando muori resta a me
By: Zerocalcare
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more
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5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
6. Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano
By: Francesco Costa
3.79
Format: 290 pages, ebook
C'è una storia che ascoltiamo da un po' di tempo, e descrive la più grande superpotenza del pianeta… read more
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7. Parti e omicidi
By: Sayaka Murata
3.76
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more
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8. Ciała
By: Annie Ernaux
4.28
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Jak oddać paraliżujący strach towarzyszący niechcianej ciąży i potajemnej aborcji? Jak opisać nasto… read more
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9. Missitalia
By: Claudia Durastanti
3.73
Format: 354 pages, ebook
Amalia Spada è un’avventuriera lontana dai tumulti che agitano la nazione che sta per nascere; una … read more
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10. Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
By: Antonio Franchini
3.90
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Il fuoco che ti porti dentro racconta la vita e la morte di Angela, una donna dal carattere impossi… read more
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"Sua madre è esattamente come lei, odia molti e disprezza tutti."-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"Concorde con lo spirito del nostro tempo, non solo non teme la contraddizione ma disprezza la coerenza."-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"A chiedere scusa ci si educa - e adesso so che è un processo accidentato -, mentre a casa mia non ci si confronta, si grida e si aggredisce, o si sta zitti. Non siamo stati abituati a parlare tra noi…"-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
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11. Irlandia wstaje z kolan
By: Marta Abramowicz
4.49
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Marta Abramowicz, autorka bestsellerowych Zakonnic, które odchodzą po cichu oraz Dzieci księży w s… read more
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12. Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria
By: Sara Marzullo
3.48
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
«Ero triste, di una tristezza vischiosa e pervasiva, come melassa o incenso. E soprattutto, era cos… read more
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13. Toń
By: Ishbel Szatrawska
4.30
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Kiedy Eichmedien stały się Nakomiadami? Kiedy Rastenburg był Rastemborkiem i kiedy stał się Kętrzyn… read more
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14. Tańcząc. Rozmowy o kryzysie i przemianie
By: Bartłomiej Dobroczyński
4.28
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Kryzys wieku średniego, kryzys egzystencjalny, duszące poczucie, że życie nas przerosło. Kryzysy co… read more
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15. How to Read Now
By: Elaine Castillo
4.03
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more
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"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
16. The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
By: Adam Biles
4.09
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world’s most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located … read more
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17. Canti di guerra. Conflitti, vendette, amori nella Milano degli anni Settanta
By: Stefano Nazzi
4.19
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
«A me piacevano le banche con la porta girevole, un calcio e il mondo cominciava a girare. Uscivo p… read more
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18. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
By: Azar Nafisi
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power… read more
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- memoir
- literature
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"...it is not true that we all want the freedom of knowledge, because it comes at a high price. It comes with pain and loneliness; it demands commitment and responsibility."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
"In democratic societies, we do not normally resort to physical violence to muffle those with ideas, but we do use other forms of violence: prejudice, censorship, and slander."-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
19. Vida de Guastavino y Guastavino
By: Andrés Barba
3.58
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Andrés Barba recupera aquí toda la audacia y libertad narrativa de maestros del género biográfico e… read more
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20. "Einige Herren sagten etwas dazu": Die Autorinnen der Gruppe 47 (German Edition)
By: Nicole Seifert
4.63
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
Nicole Seifert erzählt die Geschichte der Gruppe 47 aus einer neuen der der Frauen. Ihr Ergebnis k… read more
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21. C'è del marcio in Occidente
By: Piergiorgio Odifreddi
3.77
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Piergiorgio Odifreddi, come molti italiani nati nel dopoguerra, è cresciuto nel mito degli Stati Un… read more
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