by Harold Bloom · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422686088
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«Cómo leer y por qué» is Harold Bloom's essay on reading, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (307 pages, in Spanish).
Harold Bloom, famous for «El canon occidental», directs this guide to the common reader. Organized by genre, it covers short stories, poems, novels and drama, analyzes works by Shakespeare, Hemingway, Austen, Dickinson or Faulkner, and argues that attentive reading develops imagination, independent judgment and self-knowledge.
Translation by Marcelo Cohen of the original «How to Read and Why», published in 2000; the work falls within art and culture and philosophy.
For general readers who love literature; Bloom does not write for academics, but for those seeking a personal guide to the classics.
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
