El arte de la ficción: Apuntes sobre el oficio para jóvenes escritores

by John Gardner, Miguel Martínez-Lage (Translator)

El libro blanco de la escritura creativa en el ámbito anglosajón. Hay más libros con este mismo título, pero ninguno tan asequible como el de John Gardner. Según Miguel Martínez-Lage «La erudición que despliega Gardner nunca es apabullante, y nunca es tal por ánimo de lucimiento profesoral, sino que adquiere la forma de una conversación de tú a tú con el lector, punto menos que a pie de calle.(...) Dicho de otro modo, la utilidad de sus lecciones viene dada en gran parte por la llaneza con que las imparte».

291 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 23, 2022

About the author

John Champlin Gardner was a well-known and controversial American novelist and university professor, best known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth.

Gardner was born in Batavia, New York. His father was a lay preacher and dairy farmer, and his mother taught English at a local school. Both parents were fond of Shakespeare and often recited literature together. As a child, Gardner attended public school and worked on his father's farm, where, in April of 1945, his younger brother Gilbert was killed in an accident with a cultipacker. Gardner, who was driving the tractor during the fatal accident, carried guilt for his brother's death throughout his life, suffering nightmares and flashbacks. The incident informed much of Gardner's fiction and criticism — most directly in the 1977 short story "Redemption," which included a fictionalized recounting of the accident.

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Reviews

[Sara Alexandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uno de los mejores manuales sobre escritura que he leído. Aporta mucha claridad y conocimientos esenciales a la hora de afrontar un proyecto literario. Me han encantado la honestidad del autor y sus ejemplos muy concretos. Hay también una interesante propuesta de ejercicios al final.