Intimacy de Hanif Kureishi
En una novela desesperadamente honesta, Kureishi cuenta la historia de una separación. Poco a poco, en una verdadera escalada de sinceridad y lucidez, van surgiendo los detalles sórdidos, los pensamientos asesinos, los hechos y los gestos que habitualmente preferimos silenciar, la intimidad desnuda de una pareja. Crónica del fin del amor y el comienzo del […]
Experience de Martin Amis
La autobiografía de Martin Amis nos invita a recorrer la vida, los libros y los libros detrás de los libros de uno de los más extraordinarios narradores contemporáneos. Amparado por las figuras tutelares de Vladimir Nabokov y Saul Bellow, nos ofrece un magistral paseo por la cuerda floja de unas memorias que, no conformándose simplemente […]
Samuel Beckett
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989), who lived in Paris and wrote his plays and novels in French, not because his French was better than his English, but because it was worse. In works such as Waiting for Godot, Endgame,Molloy and Malone Dies, he wanted to show the limitations of language, […]
Ali Smith: Fiction is ‘one of our ways to get to truths that are really difficult to talk about’
“Fiction and lies are the opposite of each other,” Smith insisted. “Lies go out of their way to distort, or to turn you away from, the truth. Fiction is one of our ways to get to truths that are really difficult to talk about, that we haven’t yet been able to articulate, or see yet; […]
Why confidence in Argentina’s economy is dwindling
When a business-friendly conservative was elected president of Argentina in October 2015, hopes were high he would put the South American country’s economy on a stable path. Mauricio Macri promised to revive Argentina’s economy and achieve “zero poverty”. But less than three years later, he has unexpectedly asked for the early release of a loan […]
How a refugee became a supermodel
Mari Malek is a supermodel, DJ and actor. She is also a refugee. This is her story!
The art of medicine: bibliotherapy
Bibiotherapy – or ‘book therapy’ – is an ancient practice. The notion that reading can help to alleviate distress and anxiety was articulated as early as the 5th century BCE, by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus, who wrote that ‘words are the physician of the mind diseased’. Books do furnish a mind:the art and science of […]
Now reading at El Taller: Nutshell by Ian Mc Ewan
Our latest reading before summer hits us with its almighty force: NUTSHELL, by Ian Mc Ewan. An elegiac crossover between Hamlet and Look Who’s Talking. Want to know more about it? Why not join us this summer for some Reading, Listening and Motivating Converstions in English?
Now reading…The Snows of Kilimanjaro
“THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO” BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY Descargar pdf
How Italians influenced a South American dialect
An insightful view of our colourful language, in the eyes of a foreign writer journalist. Read article
