Cuentos de Carson McCullers / The Short Stories of Carson McCullers – hinnat ja saatavuus

Uno de los m s importantes exponentes, junto con William Faulkner, de la narrativa del sur de Estados Unidos. Adem s de ser autora de varias novelas, obras de teatro, ensayos, poemas y una autobiograf a, Carson McCullers (Columbus, Georgia, 1917 - Nueva York, 1967) public veinte relatos breves, nueve de los cuales, valorados entre sus m s logradas creaciones, conforman esta selecci n, que incorpora algunas de sus primeras piezas, como Sucker , El aliento del cielo o Wunderkind , y otras de m s tard a escritura, como Un rbol. Una roca. Una nube , El transe nte o Qui n ha visto el viento? . Encumbrada al pante n de escritores sure os norteamericanos junto a autores como William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor o Truman Capote, McCullers sobresali en su iluminadora capacidad de retratar personajes solitarios en busca de un lugar en el mundo y de capturar con toda la intensidad emocional el universo ntimo de sus turbulencias a trav s de una prosa tan sencilla como poderosa. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the most important voices--alongside William Faulkner--in Southern U. S. literature. In addition to writing several novels, plays, essays, poems, and an autobiography, Carson McCullers (Columbus, Georgia, 1917 - New York, 1967) published twenty short stories, nine of which--considered among her finest--are featured in this selection. It includes early works such as "Sucker," "Breath from the Sky," and "Wunderkind," as well as later pieces like "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud," "The Wanderer," and "Who Has Seen the Wind?" Celebrated among the great Southern American writers alongside William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Truman Capote, McCullers stood out for her luminous ability to portray lonely characters searching for their place in the world, capturing the emotional intensity of their inner lives through prose that is both simple and powerful.