The Hero. from the Spanish of Baltasar Gracian; With Remarks Moral, Political, and Historical, of the Learned Father J. de Courbeville. by a Gentleman, Gracin Baltasar, Gracian Baltasar

Автор: Gracian Baltasar
Название: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
ISBN: 1644391635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644391631
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Baltasar Graci n, in full Baltasar Graci n y Morales, (born January 8, 1601, Belmonte de Calatayud, Spain--died December 6, 1658, Tarazona), philosopher and writer known as the leading Spanish exponent of conceptism (conceptismo), a style of dealing with ideas that involves the use of terse and subtle displays of exaggerated wit.

After studying at Calatayud and Zaragoza, Graci n entered the Jesuit order at the age of 18 and later became rector of the Jesuit college at Tarragona. His early works--El h roe (1637; The Hero), El discreto (1646; The Compleat Gentleman), and El or culo manual y arte de prudencia (1647; The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle)--were largely efforts to educate people in the ethics of worldly life. His literary ideas on conceptism and the art of conceited writing (writing that continually shocks the reader by the use of startling metaphor) were clearly set forth in Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1642, 2nd ed. 1648; "Subtlety and the Art of Genius"). In defiance of his superiors, he published pseudonymously El critic n (1651, 1653, 1657; The Critick), a three-part philosophical novel considered by the 19th-century German pessimistic philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer one of the most important books ever written. In it he examined society from the standpoint of a savage and gave the clearest statement of his pessimistic philosophy with its emphasis on willpower and struggle. (britannica.com)

Автор: Saramago, Jose
Название: Baltasar & Blimunda
ISBN: 1860469019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781860469015
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Описание: In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength.

Автор: Saramago
Название: Baltasar & Blimunda
ISBN: 1860462642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781860462641
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Автор: Cue Baltasar Fernandez
Название: The True Rudolph Valentino
ISBN: 0998709824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998709826
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In the months before silent film icon Rudolph Valentino's death, he began a collaboration with Spanish journalist, Baltasar Fern ndez Cu . That collaboration was this book. Valentino lamented the glut of fictionalization about his life story and asked Cu to assist him in writing his true autobiography.

During the spring of 1926, Baltasar Fern ndez Cu became a familiar member of Valentino's entourage as he was granted extraordinary access to the star's private life and professional activities. He lunched in Valentino's United Artists' bungalow and visited the location filming of The Son of the Sheik. Cu was a frequent guest in Valentino's home in Los Angeles, Falcon Lair and befriended Valentino's last love interest, Pola Negri and his only brother, Alberto Guglielmi Valentino.

Before Valentino left on his fateful trip to New York City, he gave Cu various personal letters and documents for reference and assured him he would return within three weeks to write his autobiography. Valentino would die soon after in New York City, leaving Cu determined to fulfill his great friend's wish. With the assistance of Pola Negri and Valentino's friend Douglas Gerrard and with the endorsement of Alberto Guglielmi Valentino, Cu wrote The True Rudolph Valentino.

With his main source no longer available, Cu would construct the book from his eye-witness accounts and his experience with Valentino and his inner circle. Lamentably, he would rely on a few of the studio-generated myths Valentino hoped to dispel. Cu published his work in the Spanish language fan magazine Cine-Mundial as a ten installment series, from May 1927 to February of 1928.

Cu recounts detailed scenarios of Valentino's daily, professional and private life and includes correspondence between Valentino and Natacha Rambova and Douglas Gerrard. He grants fresh insight into these fascinating screen personalities and the tumultuous time prior to Valentino's death.

Renato Floris' translation presents this historically valuable book for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Floris conducted a meticulous research of Cu 's quizzical phraseology and worked with the assistance and analysis of many generous individuals in England, Argentina, Spain, Chile, Italy and the US.

The True Rudolph Valentino is a full-color publication which includes reproductions of the original Cine-Mundial installment illustrations.