by Harold Bloom · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433905994
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«Cómo leer y por qué» is Harold Bloom's literary criticism essay, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
Harold Bloom, professor and literary critic, reflects on the meaning of reading in an age dominated by electronic media. He analyzes short stories, poems, novels and theater by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Hemingway, Whitman, Dickinson or Faulkner, and argues that reading offers aesthetic pleasure and strengthens one's own identity.
Belongs to Anagrama's Argumentos collection (no. 248). Translation by Marcelo Cohen. First edition.
Intended for the general reading-loving public, not for specialists, and for those who want to approach the great authors with a fresh perspective.
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.
