El cerebro musical The Musical Brain and Other Stories

El cerebro musical   The Musical Brain  and Other Stories
Author: Cesar Aira
Publsiher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9786073156141

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Un genio de la botella de leche mágica que te ofrece elegir entre ser Picasso o tener un Picasso; un perro furioso que le ladra a un colectivo en marcha y un pasajero que recuerda algo que había creído olvidado; una inmutable tradición del universo que reúne a Dios y a sus únicos invitados, los monos, a tomar el té una vez al año; un grupo de veinteañeros entusiastas que se entregan a la búsqueda de la simetría... El cerebro musical recoge, en esta nueva edición de su Relatos reunidos, una selección de relatos escritos por Aira entre 1996 y 2011, y a los que se añaden tres cuentos autobiográficos inéditos: «Duchamp en México», «Taxol» y «La broma». Estos veinte textos, a medio camino entre el cuento y la crónica imaginada, ponen de manifiesto el genio inclasificable de César Aira,uno de los autores más valorados del panorama literario en lengua castellana.«Me fascina su capacidad para contar sus propias historias, ya sean fábulas políticas o elaboradas bromas inventadas, cargadas de la más pura filosofía» Patti Smith«Uno de los tres o cuatro mejores escritores que escriben en español» Roberto Bolaño«César Aira es uno de los novelistas más provocativos e idiosincrásicos de la literatura en castellano. No hay que perdérselo» Natasha Wimmer, The New York Times«No se sabe si realmente lo es o si, de verdad, se hace. César Aira, el escritor argentino más prolífico (y quizás uno de los dos o tres autores más interesantes de los últimos años), a veces puede parecer un genio, y a veces también» Diego Gándara, Qué leer«Leer a César Aira es siempre una experiencia sorprendente, aunque debe advertirse que su ficción despliega un mundo tan reconocible como original» Arturo García Ramos, ABC«Leerlo es esperarse cualquier cosa, como si fuera un relato del Sombrerero Loco o una película de Hayao Miyazaki» Álvaro Cortina ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction.A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Aira–the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long–The Musical Brain & Other Stories comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate takes on everyday reality. The title story, first published in the New Yorker, is the creme de la creme of this exhilarating collection.

The Musical Brain

The Musical Brain
Author: César Aira
Publsiher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081122029X

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A collection of twenty short stories features tales about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people.

Late Book Culture in Argentina

Late Book Culture in Argentina
Author: Craig Epplin
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781623566166

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Modern literary culture depended on the medium of the print book. Today, with the advent of digital technologies, it is far from apparent that print is, or should be, the vehicle of choice for contemporary writers. Print has been placed in relief, as the book becomes a site of experimentation with new platforms for writing. Among Latin American countries, none has been as crucial player in the world of print as Argentina. Argentine presses were the channel for many of the great modern literary experiments in Latin America. As such, it comes as no surprise that today, when those same presses have been gobbled up by transnational media conglomerates and digital technologies abound, Argentine writers would be attentive to the shifting media of literature. Late Book Culture in Argentina chronicles that shift. Epplin offers readings of some of the most innovative Argentine writers and collective projects of recent years: Osvaldo Lamborghini, César Aira, the cardboard publishing house Eloísa Cartonera, the poetry project Estación Pringles, Sergio Chejfec, and Pablo Katchadjian. This corpus provides a lens through which to understand the numerous experiments with literary formats in Argentina today. These experiments take on a number of forms-digital, artisanal, and collective-and they provide the ferment for some of Argentina's most audacious contemporary literature. As such they deserve critical attention and theoretical examination.

This is Your Brain on Music

This is Your Brain on Music
Author: Daniel Levitin
Publsiher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0241987350

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Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role in human life

Torture Garden

Torture Garden
Author: Octave Mirbeau
Publsiher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2022-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: EAN:8596547027218

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The Torture Garden is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist, and playwright Octave Mirbeau. It was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. This book is an allegory on the hypocrisy of European civilization. It presents strong criticism of bloody French and British colonialism and a ferocious attack on what Mirbeau saw as the corrupt morality of bourgeois capitalist society and the state, which he believed were based on murder.

Musicophilia

Musicophilia
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publsiher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2010-02-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780307373496

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What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.

How the Brain Learns Como Aprende el Cerebro

How the Brain Learns Como Aprende el Cerebro
Author: David A. Sousa
Publsiher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2002-08-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781483366135

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Segunda Edicion Now, the powerful best-seller on brain research and education is available in a Spanish Language Edition. El Dr. David A. Sousa es un especialista en educación a nivel internacional que ha realizado talleres de estudio sobre ciencias de la educación e investigaciones cerebrales a nivel primario, secundario y universitario, en centenares de distritos escolares. Es un frecuente conferencista en congresos nacionales de educación y se desempeña como Asesor de distritos escolares locales y regionales en todo Estados Unidos, el Canadá y Europa. El exitoso libro práctico y eficaz de David Sousa sobre investigación del cerebro y educación, ingresa al siglo XXI con una valiosa nueva edición que incorpora al texto principal previamente publicado, el manual de aprendizaje accesorio y los más recientes descubrimientos de neurociencia y pedagogía. Cómo Aprende el Cerebro siempre se ha concentrado en brindar información que puede ayudar a los educadores a tomar los descubrimientos sobre las funciones cerebrales y transformarlos en lecciones y actividades prácticas para la clase. La nueva segunda edición sigue incluyendo datos básicos acerca del cerebro que pueden ayudar a los estudiantes a aprender, brinda información sobre la manera en que el cerebro procesa información y da sugerencias para maximizar la retención, usando "los momentos de mínima retención." Y ahora el Dr. Sousa va más allá, agregando la más reciente información disponible para proveer: Un modelo de procesamiento de información actualizado que refleja la nueva terminología sobre los sistemas de memoria Nuevos y emocionantes descubrimientos sobre la forma en que el cerebro aprende habilidades motoras Un capítulo completamente nuevo sobre las consecuencias de las artes del aprendizaje Una lista amplia de fuentes originales para aquellos que deseen revisar las investigaciones que fundamentan los conceptos del libro Se incluyen la información y los conocimientos más actuales. Representa una herramienta indispensable para los dirigentes escolares, instructores de personal, educadores de maestros y personal administrativo de la educación, así como para todo educador que desee estimular el aprendizaje de sus alumnos.

Doctor Glas

Doctor Glas
Author: Hjalmar Soderberg
Publsiher: Anchor
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2009-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307483904

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A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. "Imagine the classic nineteenth-century drama featuring a tyrannical older man, his hapless daughter or young wife, and her caddish suitor, as in Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and Henry James's Washington Square, this time conjured up by a sensibility akin to Strindberg's and Ingmar Bergman's—and you begin to have an idea of the force and candor of this searing masterwork of Nothern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers." —Susan Sontag