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Antología del Cuento Extraño #3
Antología del cuento extraño
El monstruo verde, de Gerard de Nerval
Enoch Soames, de Max Beerbohm
El alacrán de Fray Gómez, de Ricardo Palma
En el camino de Brighton, de Richard Middleton
Sombras suele vestir, de José Bianco
Venado de las Siete-rozas, de Miguel Ángel Asturias
El secreto del cadalso, de Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Manuscrito antiguo, de Franz Kafka
El Deán de Santiago y el Gran Maestre de Toledo, de Juan Manuel Infante de Castilla
El precio de la cabeza, de John Russell Feam
Enoch Soames, de Max Beerbohm
El alacrán de Fray Gómez, de Ricardo Palma
En el camino de Brighton, de Richard Middleton
Sombras suele vestir, de José Bianco
Venado de las Siete-rozas, de Miguel Ángel Asturias
El secreto del cadalso, de Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Manuscrito antiguo, de Franz Kafka
El Deán de Santiago y el Gran Maestre de Toledo, de Juan Manuel Infante de Castilla
El precio de la cabeza, de John Russell Feam
190 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
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About the author
Rodolfo Walsh
85 books177 followersRodolfo Jorge Walsh was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. He remains disappeared since March 25, 1977.
After finishing the primary education in his small town in Río Negro Province, Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in 1941, where he completed high school. Although he started studying philosophy at university, he abandoned it and did a number of different jobs, including editorial. In the late 1940s he joined the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista, from which he later moved to the Peronist cause.
In 1953 he received the Buenos Aires Municipal Literature Award for his book Variaciones en Rojo. In 1957 he finished Operación Masacre, an investigative work on the assassination of opposition figures during the military government of Aramburu. In 1960 he went to Cuba, where, together with Jorge Masetti, he founded the Prensa Latina press agency. He was then close to the CGT de los Argentinos.
Back in Argentina in 1973, Walsh joined the Montoneros radical group, and four years later he was killed during a shoot-out with a special military group that set him an ambush. His body and some of his writings were never seen again. The day before his death he wrote an Open Letter to the Military Junta protesting that their economic policies were having an even greater effect on ordinary Argentines than their human rights abuses.
Four films have been based on his work, including Operación masacre (1973) and Asesinato a distancia (1998), and three of his books were published years after his death, most notably Cuento para tahúres y otros relatos policiales.
After finishing the primary education in his small town in Río Negro Province, Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in 1941, where he completed high school. Although he started studying philosophy at university, he abandoned it and did a number of different jobs, including editorial. In the late 1940s he joined the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista, from which he later moved to the Peronist cause.
In 1953 he received the Buenos Aires Municipal Literature Award for his book Variaciones en Rojo. In 1957 he finished Operación Masacre, an investigative work on the assassination of opposition figures during the military government of Aramburu. In 1960 he went to Cuba, where, together with Jorge Masetti, he founded the Prensa Latina press agency. He was then close to the CGT de los Argentinos.
Back in Argentina in 1973, Walsh joined the Montoneros radical group, and four years later he was killed during a shoot-out with a special military group that set him an ambush. His body and some of his writings were never seen again. The day before his death he wrote an Open Letter to the Military Junta protesting that their economic policies were having an even greater effect on ordinary Argentines than their human rights abuses.
Four films have been based on his work, including Operación masacre (1973) and Asesinato a distancia (1998), and three of his books were published years after his death, most notably Cuento para tahúres y otros relatos policiales.
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December 25, 2018
La selección de relatos fue, a lo sumo, entretenida, pero no se destaca por su variedad temática como los dos primeros tomos. Sin embargo, la lectura cumple con entretener.
February 11, 2022
Hasta ahora, el tomo que menos he disfrutado de la antología.
December 3, 2020
Buena selección. Es cierto que los cuentos son desiguales. Quizá haya algunos que dejen una sensación extraña, como si algo no calzara del todo. Pero por lo mismo está acertado incluirlos en la antología. Todos me han gustado. Los que me provocaron más extrañeza y al mismo tiempo fascinación fueron Enoch Soames, Sombras suele vestir y Venado de las Siete-rozas (su lenguaje autóctono es un misterio más). Los cuentos de Nerval, Kafka y Middleton son imperecederos. Recomendable.
July 31, 2022
Como los otros dos tomos, posee una recopilación de interesantes historia. En este caso me quedo con El Secreto del Cadalso, que logra atrapar al lector desde el inicio y lo suelta como al protagonista de la historia. No le doy más estrellas porque, lamentablemente, las historias más largas son las que menos interesantes me parecieron, lo que hizo que en algún punto me diera pereza continuarlas.
November 16, 2020
Pongo esta nota por tres de los relatos: el breve de Kafka, que me parece evocador y perturbador a partes iguales; el relato guatemalteco sobre el ciervo y el curandero; y el último de la cabeza.
April 20, 2024
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