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Relatos
Barcelona. 18 cm. 436 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección 'Libros Reno', numero coleccion(v. 33). Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961. Relatos .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.
93 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2010
About the author
Ernest Hemingway
1,995 books32.9k followersErnest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded in 1918. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. He married Hadley Richardson in 1921, the first of four wives. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s' "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926.
He divorced Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War, where he had worked as a journalist and which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. He and Gellhorn separated after he met Mary Welsh Hemingway in London during World War II. Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the 1930s and in Cuba in the 1940s and 1950s. On a 1954 trip to Africa, he was seriously injured in two plane accidents on successive days, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. In 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where, on July 2, 1961 (a couple weeks before his 62nd birthday), he killed himself using one of his shotguns.
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June 27, 2019
El libro reúne una treintena de relatos de Hemingway que cubren un amplio abanico de temas: relatos bélicos, relatos de turistas en Europa, relatos que tienen al toreo como protagonista, relatos de hechos triviales y cotidianos...
En todos ellos el estilo de Hemingway se revela simple, sencillo, directo y poco ornamentado. Un estilo fácil de leer y en el que la reflexión viene dada por la situación descrita, por los actos y comentarios de los protagonistas, sin que el autor entre a explicitar nada más allá de lo narrado.
Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos relatos carecen de la estructura clásica de planteamiento, nudo y desenlace; son escenas (muy bien narradas, eso sí) en las que, la mayor parte de las veces, no pasa nada. Parecen ejercicios de estilo o fragmentos de una narración mayor más que un relato por sí mismo.
Esta forma de relatos hace que un libro que reúne una treintena de ellos se haga largo, pues el lector pasa páginas pero en las páginas no pasa nada; no hay una acción, una trama, un suspense que anime a seguir leyendo más allá de la estética de las palabras en sí.
En cuanto a la edición, se limita a reunir los relatos sin más, sin contexto ni explicación alguna. Sin embargo, varios relatos muestran claramente tener un origen común (unos parecen responder a una experiencia o interés del autor que es común a todos, otros parecen dibujar en conjunto un escenario mayor...).
Tampoco hay una referencia clara de la época en que fueron escritos. Se echa, pues, a faltar un prólogo, la fecha de publicación de los relatos y/o un breve comentario a algunos de ellos (o de conjuntos de ellos) para comprender mejor la obra de Hemingway.
En todo caso, una lectura interesante que no tiene por qué ser leída de un tirón; bien puede ser un libro de cabecera del que leer unos cuantos relatos de vez en cuando.
En todos ellos el estilo de Hemingway se revela simple, sencillo, directo y poco ornamentado. Un estilo fácil de leer y en el que la reflexión viene dada por la situación descrita, por los actos y comentarios de los protagonistas, sin que el autor entre a explicitar nada más allá de lo narrado.
Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos relatos carecen de la estructura clásica de planteamiento, nudo y desenlace; son escenas (muy bien narradas, eso sí) en las que, la mayor parte de las veces, no pasa nada. Parecen ejercicios de estilo o fragmentos de una narración mayor más que un relato por sí mismo.
Esta forma de relatos hace que un libro que reúne una treintena de ellos se haga largo, pues el lector pasa páginas pero en las páginas no pasa nada; no hay una acción, una trama, un suspense que anime a seguir leyendo más allá de la estética de las palabras en sí.
En cuanto a la edición, se limita a reunir los relatos sin más, sin contexto ni explicación alguna. Sin embargo, varios relatos muestran claramente tener un origen común (unos parecen responder a una experiencia o interés del autor que es común a todos, otros parecen dibujar en conjunto un escenario mayor...).
Tampoco hay una referencia clara de la época en que fueron escritos. Se echa, pues, a faltar un prólogo, la fecha de publicación de los relatos y/o un breve comentario a algunos de ellos (o de conjuntos de ellos) para comprender mejor la obra de Hemingway.
En todo caso, una lectura interesante que no tiene por qué ser leída de un tirón; bien puede ser un libro de cabecera del que leer unos cuantos relatos de vez en cuando.
April 21, 2024
Maravilloso libro de relatos ambientado en diferentes partes del mundo. Diferentes realidades y una lectura 100% recomendable.
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