Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'

Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour.

Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

S-a plictisit si a luptat impotriva plictiselului ei, care nu a facut decat sa o plictiseasca si mai mult. ' Cinci portrete scurte, ireverentioase si ireversibile ale unor figuri literare celebre (inclusiv libertini, excentrici si fripi) de la cel mai mare scriitor viu din Spania. Penguin Modern: cincizeci de carti noi care sarbatoresc spiritul de pionierat al emblematicului serial Penguin Modern Classics, fiecare oferind un hit concentrat al aromei sale contemporane, internationale.