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Cuentos Escogidos

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Saki es considerado un maestro del cuento, y sus relatos ofrecen personajes sutilmente retratados y tramas magistralmente concebidas con finales sorpresivos. Todos sus cuentos, sean de humor o terror, son un ejemplo de la brevedad y eficacia. Crítico implacable de sus contemporáneos victorianos, rígidos en sus costumbres y apegados a ridículas fórmulas sociales, Saki tomaba asuntos triviales de la vida cotidiana y los narraba con tono cruel que descubría la verdadera naturaleza de la persona y la máscara con que la ocultaba. La suya no es una ironía estridente sino sutil y profunda. Al decir de Jorge Luis Borges: ...con una suerte de pudor, Saki da un tono de trivialidad a relatos cuya íntima trama es arga y cruel. Esa delicadeza, esa levedad, esa ausencia de énfasis puede recordar las deliciosas comedias de Wilde...
Cuentos escogidos reúne relatos publicados originalmente en sus libros de cuentos: Las aventuras de Reginald, Crónicas de Clovis, Animales y más que animales y Jguetes de Paz/El huevo cuadrado.

234 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2007

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Saki

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British writer Hector Hugh Munro under pen name Saki published his witty and sometimes bitter short stories in collections, such as The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).

His sometimes macabre satirized Edwardian society and culture. People consider him a master and often compare him to William Sydney Porter and Dorothy Rothschild Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window," perhaps his most famous, closes with the line, "Romance at short notice was her specialty," which thus entered the lexicon. Newspapers first and then several volumes published him as the custom of the time.

His works include
* a full-length play, The Watched Pot , in collaboration with Charles Maude;
* two one-act plays;
* a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire , the only book under his own name;
* a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington ;
* the episodic The Westminster Alice , a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland ;
* and When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns , an early alternate history.

Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Joseph Rudyard Kipling, influenced Munro, who in turn influenced A. A. Milne, and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.

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July 27, 2023
Excelente cuentista. Todo un maestro. Es toda una delicia leer sus cuentos con su fino humor y crítica a sus contemporáneos. Me alegra mucho haberlo encontrado de la nada.
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