Chiara Corbella Petrillo: A Witness to Joy
Chiara is a young Italian woman who lives happily. Shortly after finishing college, she meets Enrico on a pilgrimage, and together they decide to start a family. Chiara was 24 years old when they got...
Biographies
Ghost Stories
Siri Hustvedt, the widow of writer Paul Auster, experiences her mourning by remembering her life with the writer. She recounts his illness and includes biographical and autobiographical details, without...
Fly, wild swans
After the great success of Wild Swans in 1991, in which the author recounted the lives of three generations of women, beginning with her grandmother and...
A Life of Chekhov
The publication of this book in 1946, four years after the author’s death, was made possible thanks to her daughters’ efforts to preserve her manuscripts. The depth of the book is striking. It draws...
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay
A sports biography of Rafael Nadal. The book recounts the sporting career of the Mallorcan tennis player. Furthermore, as the subtitle suggests, it explores the history of the Roland Garros tournament, the...
Mozart in motion. His work and his world in pieces
A disappointing biography if one is looking to learn about the composer’s life. It is more suitable for music lovers or scholars of the Salzburg composer’s music, as it attempts to explain Mozart’s life...
Balzac: A Biography
Posthumous work, completed in its final revisions by Richard Friedenthal, editor of the complete works of Stefan Zweig.
Biography of the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It portrays both the man and...
Talking about God is dangerous
Autobiographical book in which Tatiana Goricheva recounts how she discovered Christianity in Soviet Russia, despite persecution. In her youth, she was a Communist leader and a professor of philosophy. Her...
C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
Joseph Pearce, a renowned scholar of English literature, addresses in this essay the reason why C. S. Lewis, despite his intellectual and spiritual closeness to Catholicism, never took the definitive step...
Marceline Desbordes‑Valmore: The Life of a Poetess
A brief biography of a French poetess and actress from the first half of the 19th century. The life of the subject was very difficult and an example of strength in the face of adversity.