Live a life full of the greats of literature: Camus, Canetti, Emerson, Saint-Exupéry, Yourcenar, among others.
What can books do for us? Is reading useful? Is it therapeutic? Can it make us happy or provide us with the spiritual resources necessary to shield us from adversity? Can literature be prescribed? Does it benefit the body as much as the soul?
Day after day science continues to confirm the benefits of books. Studies show that the effects of reading can be compared to those of meditation and medicine. Readers sleep better, maintain lower levels of stress and depression and higher levels of self-esteem. Reading prolongs life and changes us in essential ways: good fiction expands our horizons, helps us to better understand others and makes us more empathetic. Each chapter of Book Therapy is a formula to get close to the authors, contexts, passages and reflections that have provided Jordi Nadal, author and editor of these and many more pages, comfort during difficult times and served as a guide for every important decision. This book is a manual for living more lives than your own, which will help confirm the validity of the words of Montesquieu, "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
Jordi Nadal was born in Lliçà d’Amunt (Barcelona) in 1962 and holds a degree in Germanic Studies from the University of Barcelona. In 1998 he completed his studies in Stanford Professional Publishing Course.
He began his career at Vicens Vives and continued at Herder (Germany). Among other positions, he has been director of EDHASA, editorial and publications director of Círculo de Lectores, consultant at Random House in New York, general director of corporate development for Spain and America at Grupo Plaza & Janés and assistant director at Ediciones Paidós, as well as Deputy General Manager at Planeta Agostini Profesional and Formación.
He is co-author of the book Meditando el Management… y la vida (Planeta, 2007, Plataforma Editorial, 2012) and Libros o velocidad. Reflexiones sobre el oficio editorial (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Madrid and Mexico, 2005), and author of Todo tan cerca (Poliedro, 2005) (translated into 6 languagues), El paraíso interior (Plataforma, Editorial, 2011), Todo lo que tengo es el silencio (Estrella, 2020), Libroterapia (Plataforma, 2020) and La invención de la bicicleta (Plataforma, 2020).
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