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Una nueva antología de los mejores cuentos de Joseph Conrad, centrada en sus grandes temas y en su vigencia como cronista de un mundo globalizado
Prólogo y traducción de Martín Schifino
El presente volumen reúne quince de los mejores cuentos de Joseph Conrad, una selección concebida para reflejar la variedad y la evolución de su narrativa breve, escrita entre 1897 y 1917. Se recogen clásicos ambientados en el mar y en el archipiélago malayo, dos ámbitos con su sello indeleble, pero también textos que examinan la memoria de Europa o las promesas de Sudamérica, sin que falten las críticas del colonialismo ni las condenas de los extremismos nacidos en el siglo XIX. El conjunto revela a un autor de una enorme modernidad, atento no solo a las aventuras individuales, sino también a la multiplicidad étnica, política y cultural de un mundo globalizado que parece predecir el nuestro.
Índice de
La laguna
Una avanzadilla del progreso
unrecuerdo
Juventud
Amy Foster
Mañana
La bestia
Un anarquista
El informante
Il Conte
El cómplice secreto
La posada de las dos brujas
El alma de guerrero
El príncipe Román
La historia
Sobre el autor y su
«Nadie vivió más rudamente que Conrad; nadie sometió después la vida a una transmutación artística tan sabia, sesuda y paciente».
André Gide
Prólogo y traducción de Martín Schifino
El presente volumen reúne quince de los mejores cuentos de Joseph Conrad, una selección concebida para reflejar la variedad y la evolución de su narrativa breve, escrita entre 1897 y 1917. Se recogen clásicos ambientados en el mar y en el archipiélago malayo, dos ámbitos con su sello indeleble, pero también textos que examinan la memoria de Europa o las promesas de Sudamérica, sin que falten las críticas del colonialismo ni las condenas de los extremismos nacidos en el siglo XIX. El conjunto revela a un autor de una enorme modernidad, atento no solo a las aventuras individuales, sino también a la multiplicidad étnica, política y cultural de un mundo globalizado que parece predecir el nuestro.
Índice de
La laguna
Una avanzadilla del progreso
unrecuerdo
Juventud
Amy Foster
Mañana
La bestia
Un anarquista
El informante
Il Conte
El cómplice secreto
La posada de las dos brujas
El alma de guerrero
El príncipe Román
La historia
Sobre el autor y su
«Nadie vivió más rudamente que Conrad; nadie sometió después la vida a una transmutación artística tan sabia, sesuda y paciente».
André Gide
478 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 18, 2024
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About the author
Joseph Conrad
3,181 books4,911 followersJoseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
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