The sublime object of the ideology of Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek born in Slovenia in 1949, is a Doctor of Philosophy and investigator of the Institute of Social studies of Liubliana, and teacher visitor in Social New School for Research of New York. As teacher invited also has taught in institutions as Université Paris-VIII, SUNY Buffalo, University of Minnesota, Tulane University, New Orleans, Columbia University, New York and Princeton University. In 1990 he was a candidate for the presidency of his country, although it was not elected.
Philosopher and psychoanalyst, Žižek in his work integrates the thought of Jacques Lacan with the Marxism. It tends to illustrate his theory with taken examples of the popular culture. For example, the movies of Hitchcock or of David Lynch. The Kafka literature, or of Shakespeare.
He has published some such works as: “Enjoy your symptom!”, “Quite what you wanted to know about Lacan and he never dared to ask Hitchcock”, “Looking at the slant”, “Because they do not know what they do”, and “The thorny subject”. His qualifications have been translated into numerous languages, like Japanese, portuguese, Danish and German, between others.
In The sublime object of the ideology, Žižek it realizes an analysis of the ideological fantasies of integration and of exclusion that the human societies shape. Linking concepts of the psychoanalysis with such social phenomena like the racism or the dictatorship, the book investigates the political significance of these fantasies of control. This way, The sublime object of the ideology supposes a powerful contribution to the psychoanalytic theory of the ideology.

What hides your name of Clara Sánchez

There is already free for presale in House of the Book the novel with which Clara Sánchez has gained the prestigious Award Nadal 2010, what hides your name. A novel on the memory and the fault, a history of terror that he does not need from supernatural elements to provoke shakes.
The protagonist from what he hides your name is Sandra, a pregnant woman who leaves his work and moves back to the Levantine coast, where it begins relation with a marriage of Norwegian elders. The history is complicated when scene there enters Julián, an elder who survived the extermination fields and who come from Argentina, does not lose footprint to the Norwegians.
One day, Julián approaches Sandra and reports the particulars of a terrible past: the horrors that she only knew by means of the movies or the documentaries and that, till now, he believed completely foreign to her. Little by little, he begins to observe in a way different from his Norwegian friends, without perceiving that its own life has spent to be in danger.
Clara Sánchez was born in Guadalajara in 1955. In the year 2000 it gained the Award Alfaguara of novel and recently, the Award Nadal. She is a philologist and university teacher, in addition to specialist in movies: 2 usually collaborates with José Luis Garci in his program on the topic expressed in the Chain.
Authoress is, between other qualifications, of Last news about the paradise, Forebodings, A million lights, From the lookout and Precious stones.

The gift of Vorace de Félix Francisco Casanova Martín

There is free for presale in House of the Book the reprint of The gift of Vorace, book with which Félix Francisco Casanova Martín gained in 1975 the award of novel “Pérez Armas“. So interesting as the history that counts the proper novel – the detours towards the delinquency of a man that, the immortal being, lacks all the moral principles - is the history of the proper author, who has been compared in more than one occasion with Rimbaud.
As the brilliant French writer, Casanova was provocative, he began to write being very young and had an early and extremely tragic death: the official version is that he died due to a gas leakage in his domicile, while it was bathing. The author had only nineteen years. Despite the briefness of his life, it had time to leave a sharp, unusual and curious work, obtaining achievements of an amazing ripeness in the field of the poetry and the experimental prose. At the age of seventeen it obtained with The hothouse the most important award of poetry summoned in Canaries, "Julio Tovar". To the nineteen, one month before his death, another first award of poetry, granted to A suitcase full of sheets, book of poems that constitutes the second part of The forgotten memory.
The gift of Vorace, of which the author was saying that it was a parody to The tunnel, of the Argentinian Ernesto Sábado, is an entertaining, improbable novel and that demonstrates a big imaginative effort. In accordance with what says the Casanova's newspaper, it was written in only forty four days. The author had because of it of that time seventeen years.

Aroma of camphor of Naiyer Masud

Naiyer Masud is a writer, translator and born professor of Persian language in the India. He has always lived in Lucknow (Utta Pradesh), in house that his father constructed and called Adabistan (House of the Literature). Admired in his country thanks to his histories books, author of essays on literature and infantile literature, Masud says to be an admirer of Kafka, Poe and Borges.
His writing drifts apart from the exoticism and the magic realism typical of the Indian literature of last decades. His histories, of subtle fantastic climate, are supported in the psychological workmanship that gets rid of his biting and deep humanity.
Camphor aroma is a fistful of absorbent histories that propose to captivate the readership. In one of them, a perfumista is addicted to the camphor aroma because across the same one it evokes melancholic memoirs of childhood associated with his love for a sick girl. A young man becomes a town-planning inspector after fleeing of a relation with his aunt, and discovers his strange gift. The father of a child leads the child to living with an ambulant comic in a people through nearly one lake ruled by the widow of a bandit, who is a mother of a surprising daughter who has always lived in a boat without never touching the ground and who is sure to be able to walk on the water. A man risks everything on having stolen a songbird of the garden of a sultan of The thousand and one nights.
In his histories, Masud is revealed like an artist who has reached the literary ripeness.

The book of others of Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is a young English authoress that there has published such novels like white Teeth and The hunter of autographs. In this occasion, his ingenuity has suggested him a book with an extremely original starting point.
The idea was to invite the most talented Anglo-Saxon writers of his generation to be invented personages minor of the sex, the nationality, the religion or the color … not even to what species they belong. This way, there arose this book, The book of others, with twenty-one histories of different authors of big talent, both American and European. Between them, proper Zadie Smith. And the histories also are extremely varied. Led in most cases by human beings, also we think between the personages to a monster that he suffers an identity crisis, a pup for that a house and a giant looks with love sorrow.
The authors of the histories that appear in The book of others are: Edwige Danticat, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Andrew Sean Greer, Aleksandar Hemon, A.M. Homes, Nick Hornby (with illustrations of Posy Simmonds), Heidi Julavits, Miranda July, A. L. Kennedy, Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Lethem, Toby Litt, David Mitchell, Andrew O'Hagan, ZZ Packer, George Saunders, Zadie Smith, Adam Thirlwell, Colm Tóibín, Sell Life.
Also it costs to mention that the publication of this volume thinks about how to generate funds for 826 NYC, an ONG dedicated to perfecting the reading skills and writers of children and young people.

The siege of Arturo Pérez-Reverte

There is already free for presale in House of the Book The siege, the new novel of Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The author is one of the names most emphasized from the contemporary Spanish narrative. During the majority of his life he devoted himself to the journalism, working, between other things, like correspondent of war, until finally it left this activity to devote itself directly to the literature. Some of his most recognized works are The spherical letter, Captain Alatriste, The table of Flanders and The Club Dumas. His novels have brought an enormous popularity, have been translated into 25 languages and some of his books have been adapted to the movies.
The siege is a history that takes place in the Cadiz of 1812, a city refined and opened for the world but that suffers the consequences of the War of lndependencia. Diverse personages are related between themselves as if the city was an immense chess board.
With regard to The siege the same Pérez-Reverte said: "I write what I see, what I read and what I am. It is not a historical novel not on the Independence war. Siege is a novel full of fortunes; there is a central puzzler of scientific type, a challenge that he plans for the whole history. It passes in the Cadiz of the French siege, but it is a novel of personages, of several personages with different histories which lives are crossing and which attitudes and conflicts connect straight with now. (…) Every topic has a personage who represents a part of the history; they are crossing, they all converge. They are all my novels that I have written are here”.

Revenge in Seville of Matilde Asensi

Revenge is already free for presale in House of the Book in Seville, the new novel of Matilde Asensi, authoress of firm Earth, and once again the protagonist is Catalina Solís. The place is Seville, one of the most important cities of the world in the year 1607. There, Catalina will carry out his revenge. It has done to his adoptive father the oath of executing to I curl, who murdered it and that have been done by a big fortune with the silver that they have stolen in the Americas.
For it, Catalina is provided with a double identity and with a big ingenuity that they allow him to design a multiple revenge with different strategies. It will combine the force, the trick, the seduction, the medicine and the game, being provided with the help of some friends and accomplices as well as with an important base of knowledge on the customs of the Sevillian society.
To write Revenge in Seville, Matilde Asensi has researched profusely and in his work trasluce the meticulous investigation on the epoch that the authoress must have realized. Asensi studied journalism in the Autonomous University of Barcelona and he was employed for three years at Radio Alicant-SER. Later it went on to National Radio of Spain, practising at the same time like correspondent of the agency EFE, and collaborating in provincial newspapers. As for his literary work, finalist of the literary prizes has been a City of San Sebastian (1995) and Gabriel Miró (1996) and there has gained the first stories award in XV literary contest Juan Ortiz of the Ship (1996), of Cadiz, and XVI edition of the award of short novel Felipe Trigo (1997), of Badajoz.