Memoria para el olvido. Los ensayos de Robert Louis Stevenson

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Toda lectura debe ser absorbente y es la memoria activa y creadora que nos despoja del traje habitual para olvidarnos de nosotros mismos y habitar la imaginación. Los ensayos nos llevan a la reflexión sobre temas tan diversos como la literatura, las costumbres y los recuerdos, todos ellos dominados por un poder evocativo directo y profundo, y nos permiten descubrir en los gestos de la vida el germen de una epopeya.

302 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.