En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su medico Polidori en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar un
On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar wit
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Foldenyi’s extraordinaryMelancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesi