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La lluvia de fuego es uno de los doce cuentos que componen Las fuerzas extrañas, editados por primera vez en 1906. Tras leer el subtítulo de «Evocación de un desencarnado de Gomorra», el lector toma conciencia de que se trata de una referencia bí el final de Sodoma y Gomorra. Ciudades que fueron castigadas por el poder divino en forma de lluvia de fuego por sus innumerables pecados. En La lluvia de fuego, de Leopoldo Lugones, el fuego también cae sobre la «De pronto, el esclavo que atravesaba el jardín con un nuevo plato, no pudo reprimir un grito. Llegó, no obstante, a la mesa; pero acusando con su lividez un dolor horrible. Tenía en su desnuda espalda un agujerillo, en cuyo fondo sentíase chirriar aún la chispa voraz que lo había abierto.» En un increscendo continuo la tragedia, de origen desconocido, amenaza con arrasarlo todo. En medio de la tragedia un hombre vive aislado en un sótano entre botellas de vinos y víveres que allí se acumulan. En tímidas excursiones al exterior el hombre irá descubriendo las dimensiones de la tragedia provocada por La lluvia de fuego. La incertidumbre, la fuerza de lo innombrable y el azar dan a este relato argentino un toque surrealista y otro toque de literatura del absurdo.

468 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2024

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Juan Valera

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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, writer and political figure.
He was born at Cabra, in the province of Córdoba, and was educated at Málaga and at the University of Granada, where he took his degree in law, and then entered upon a diplomatic career (1847). Over the next five decades, Valera filled a number of positions in a variety of various places. He accompanied the Spanish Ambassador to Naples. Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57). After his return to Madrid, he became one of the editors of the liberal journal El Contemporáneo (1859), and was appointed Minister to Frankfurt (1865). After the revolution of 1868 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State and (1871) Director of Public Instruction. During the reign of Alphonso XII he was Minister to Lisbon (1881–83), Washington (1883–86), and Brussels (1886–88), and in 1893-95 Ambassador to Vienna. He was elected to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1900.

Throughout his diplomatic and political activity he produced works which rank among the highest that his country's literature contains. For purity of diction and beauty of style Valera has never been surpassed in Spain. Pepita Jiménez, which appeared as a serial in 1874, is probably his best known work; it has since been translated into many languages. It depicts the gradual realization by a young seminarian of the empty vanity of his vocation, culminating in a shattering denouement. Other novels are Las ilusions del doctor Faustino (1875), El comendador Mendoza (1877), Pasarse de listo, and Doña Luz (1879). All of the foregoing novels were written around the time when he abandoned his political activities. He was also a supporter of Iberian Federalism.

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May 23, 2016
Un cuento atmosférico de Lugones. Prosa bien modernista (modernismo hispanoamericano), con descripciones poéticas y vocabulario exótico. Interesante la reacción del personaje: su mundo se acaba pero él se siente seguro porque tiene su botellita de veneno con la que suicidarse, así que puede disfrutar tranquilo del espectáculo. Copado el paralelismo de los humanos que no entienden por qué son castigados por el vengativo dios cristiano y los leones que rugen doloridos hacia cielo "como a una divinidad obscura".

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* La Biblia (s. IV d.C.), anónimo (epígrafe; Levítico 26:19).

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October 10, 2022
Esta clase de cuentos me encantan. Cuentos diferentes alejados de amores, comedias y la clásica tragedia.
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