Bücher von Harold Bloom

A critical novel about the ways in which we absorb various forms of wisdom from the literature we consume, from the author The New York Times calls "the most influential critic of the last quarter-century."In one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes the reader from the Bible through the twentieth century, searching for the ways literature can inform lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, Johnson and Goethe, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Montaigne and Bacon, Emerson and Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, and finally discussions of the Gospel of Thomas and St. Augustine, Bloom distills the various-and even contrary-forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking.

A controversial national best seller upon its initial publication, The Book of J is an audacious work of literary restoration revealing one of the great narratives of all time and unveiling its mysterious author. J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900 BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers is based. In The Book of J, accompanying David Rosenberg's translation, Harold Bloom persuasively argues that J was a woman—very likely a woman of the royal house at King Solomon's court—and a writer of the stature of Homer, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy. Rosenberg's translations from the Hebrew bring J's stories to life and reveal her towering originality and grasp of humanity. Bloom argues in several essays that "J" was not a religious writer but a fierce ironist. He also offers historical context, a discussion of the theory of how the different texts came together to create the Bible, and translation notes.

Macbeth es una de las tragedias más leídas y escenificadas de Shakespeare. El protagonista, un guerrero distinguido, se transforma en asesino despiadado consumido por la duda y la ambición. William Shakespeare sigue siendo estudiado desde diversas perspectivas y disciplinas por su óptimo conocimiento de las pasiones humanas. En una excelente traducción de Ángel-Luis Pujante, Harold Bloom nos muestra la transformación del personaje, adentrándose en su interioridad con perspicacia, agilidad y una alta dosis de compasión. La lucidez de su lectura convierte a Macbeth. Un puñal imaginario en el perfecto colofón de una serie fundamental compuesta por cinco títulos: Falstaff. Lo mío es la vida; Cleopatra. Soy fuego y aire; Lear. La gran imagen de la autoridad; Yago. Las estrategias del mal y Macbeth. Un puñal imaginario. Harold Bloom rinde homenaje -una vez más- a una de las mentes más prodigiosas e imaginativas de la literatura universal. El crítico dedicó sesenta años de su vida al análisis del corpus creativo de William Shakespeare. Cada uno de estos libros es una guía de viaje a nuestra interioridad, y cada personaje estudiado resulta esencial para comprender lo humano y sus elementos trágicos. La ambición y la ceguera de Macbeth, como sucedía en el Siglo V a. C., son espejos, extrañamente oscuros, mas al fin espejos que develan nuestra propia ineluctable fragilidad.Macbeth nos muestra que el teatro es personal, no admite límites: en cada obra cabe el universo personal y original de la imaginación.El aclamado crítico Bloom, una vez más, explora las profundidades de una obra de Shakespeare para revelar nuevas ideas [...] cambiarán las percepciones del lector de un clásico literario. Publishers Weekly

This is the book that introduced deconstruction as a tool for literary and cultural theorists throughout the English-speaking world, and set the ball rolling for the subsequent controversies over the use of theory to study liuterature.

A study of the Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For this second edition Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism.