Essays and Lectures
Frank Wollman
Bulgarian Dramaturgy
"Bulgarian Dramaturgy" is the first history of our drama, which is only now becoming available to our reading public in translation into Bulgarian. The text comprehensively covers the main periods of the development of stage discourse in our count
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Georgy Borisov
My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 1
In this impressive literary work in terms of volume and time span, which the author has called “My Stories”, and some would define it as a kind of “writer’s diary”, Georgi Borisov presents his unpublished poems, th
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Georgy Borisov
My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 2
There are few servants of the Word in our country today who are able to resist vanity and not deviate from the path on which their talent has led them. And on this path, if you remain true to your nature and indifferent to the tempta
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Marin Georgiev
The Conspiracy of the Dead
"The Conspiracy of the Dead" by Marin Georgiev is a story about the "intermediate Bulgarian time". For a time that supposedly no longer exists, but which must be witnessed if we want to understand what and how it was. The stories and testimonies
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Alexander Kiossev
Job and Jobbery
The book covers short journalistic texts written on various occasions in the period 2000-2024. The style is sometimes serious and sad, other times - cheerful, playfully intellectual. Some of the texts are longer and reflective, others are shorter
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Elena Ferrante
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist
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Henry James
The Art of Criticism
Born in New York in 1843, but having spent most of his life overseas, and above all in England, where he died in 1916, Henry James left a huge creative legacy - twenty-one novels (including such masterpieces as "The Portrait of a Lady"
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Eliot Weinberger
An Elemental Thing
With An Elemental Thing, Eliot Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us
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Umberto Eco
To Say Almost the Same Thing. Experiments on Translation
The brilliant Italian philosopher, semiotician and cultural critic Umberto Eco reflects on the compromise nature of translation
After giving a series of lectures on translation, Umberto Eco further developed his notes in a monograph respectable
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Lyubomir Halachev
The Art of Being a Producer
This book is a journey (I would say even adventure) in the field of film production, a guide to every visual management student, an extremely enjoyable experience for people like me whose life has been strongly connected with film and tele
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Syd Field
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field’s bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classic guide for a new generatio
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Christfried Tögel
Freud for Dummies
This is an extremely useful and accessible book, panoramic view on the personality and studies of the founder of psychoanalysis. It contains brief overview of his main studios, his expertly written essays and the famous paradigmatic cases from
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Civilization of the Spectacle
Mario Vargas Llosa: "Civilization of the Spectacle" (La civilización del espectáculo) is an attempt to express a feeling of concern, an anguish of sorts, on seeing what we understood by "culture" when I was young, changing
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Dalai Lama
Let’s Declare Peace!
As Hessel admits, this text differs from his essays, because through it he turned to the spirit for the first time. Conversely, what is striking in the words of the Dalai Lama, is his will to emphasize the importance of "secular ethics", the on
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Sigmund Freud
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
These lectures were delivered by Freud during World War I. Never before, in the course of 30 years of lecturing at the University of Vienna, had he deliberately set down, with a view to publication, the full range of his theori
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Sigmund Freud
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
These lectures were delivered by Freud during World War I. Never before, in the course of 30 years of lecturing at the University of Vienna, had he deliberately set down, with a view to publication, the full range of his theori
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Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
"American Lectures" ("Six Memos for the Next Millennium") is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures
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Stéphane Hessel
Time for Outrage
After 93 years, it is almost the final act. The end for me is not very far off any more. But it still leaves me a chance to be able to remind others of what acted as the basis of my political engagement. It was the years of resistance to th
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