by Harold Bloom · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433962270
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«Genios» is the literary essay by Harold Bloom, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (946 pages, in Spanish).
An essay that surveys one hundred creative figures in literature, from the Bible and Socrates to Shakespeare, Dante, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison. Bloom examines the influences and relevance of poets such as Milton or Whitman, playwrights such as Ibsen or Tennessee Williams, and novelists such as Melville or Tolstoy, and includes Cervantes, Borges, and Octavio Paz.
Subtitle: «Un mosaico de cien mentes creativas y ejemplares». Belongs to the Argumentos collection, number 332. Translation by Margarita Valencia Vargas.
Recommended for fans of criticism and literary history seeking a broad map of authors from different eras.
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.
