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Cuentos De Humor Inglés –Antología–

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Curiosamente, la mentalidad de ciertos pueblos parece más inclinada a ejercer el sentido del humor, como si algunas lenguas favorecieran intrínsecamente la capacidad de la ironía, la percepción satírica de una realidad que no excluye de ningún modo la autocrítica; es decir, la posibilidad de burlarse de uno mismo.

Lo anterior es lo que ocurre en el caso de los ingleses, que en el correr de los siglos han dado testimonio —desde los medievales Cuentos de Canterbury de Geoffrey Chaucer— del amplísimo espectro de su sentido del humor, difundido y admirado en todo el mundo.

En esta selección, algunos cuentos no son estrictamente para “hacer reír”, sino que producen más bien un efecto cruel, utilizando el sentido del humor —por excelencia la ironía— como medio para lograr un propósito ulterior, polémico, filosófico o satíricamente crítico.

187 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

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G.K. Chesterton

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.

Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.

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November 9, 2020
Un librito bastante curioso con cuentos de distintos autores ingleses, todos con ese típico humor negro que tienen, a veces bastante obscuro, otras solo extraño. Sí hay que estar un poco enterado de sus ironías para entender su peculiar sentido del humor, pero igual son cuentos entretenidos.
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