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Carson McCullers

    19 de febrero de 1917 – 29 de septiembre de 1967

    Carson McCullers, autora estadounidense, es célebre por su ficción, a menudo caracterizada como gótica sureña, que explora profundamente el aislamiento espiritual de los inadaptados y marginados del sur. Su obra capta magistralmente las complejidades de la psique humana, adentrándose en temas de soledad y amor no correspondido. Aunque algunos categorizan su estilo como realismo sureño, este se inspira en el realismo ruso, mostrando una profunda comprensión de la fragilidad humana y las luchas de los marginados. La voz distintiva de McCullers y su profunda visión de la condición humana solidifican su importancia literaria.

    Carson McCullers
    The Ballad of Sad Café
    The Member of the Wedding. Frankie, englische Ausgabe
    The Mortgaged Heart
    Carson Mccullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings
    Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
    El corazón es un cazador solitario
    • Collected Stories of Carson McCullers

      Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café

      • 394 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      At the height of her literary career, Carson McCullers showcases her exceptional talent in short fiction, blending her skills as a novelist, dramatist, and poet. Her work reflects deep emotional insight and explores complex themes of loneliness, identity, and the human experience, captivating readers with her unique narrative style and rich character development.

      Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
      4,3
    • "Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" and "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud." as well as her previously uncollected story about the civil rights movement, "The March"; her award-winning Broadway play The Member of the Wedding and the unpublished teleplay The Sojourner; twenty-two essays; and the revealing unfinished memoir Illumination and Night Glare. This wide-ranging gathering of shorter works reveals new depths and dimensions of the writer whom V.S. Pritchett praised for her "courageous imagination--one that is bold enough to consider the terrible in human nature without loss of nerve, calm, dignity, or love.""--Dust jacket

      Carson Mccullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings
      4,1
    • The Mortgaged Heart

      • 300 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of The Mute, which became her novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

      The Mortgaged Heart
      4,0
    • With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.

      The Member of the Wedding. Frankie, englische Ausgabe
      4,0
    • The Ballad of Sad Café

      • 118 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      When Cousin Lymon, a dwarf and a hunchback, arrives at Miss Amelia's store, he releases feelings of tenderness in Miss Amelia's hardened heart. Together they transform the store into a cafe. But their contentment is to be short lived, for Miss Amelia's estranged husband finds his way back to her.

      The Ballad of Sad Café
      4,0
    • The Haunted Boy

      • 64 páginas
      • 3 horas de lectura

      His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.

      The Haunted Boy
      3,9
    • Clock Without Hands

      • 207 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility -- of a man toward his own livingness".

      Clock Without Hands
      3,7
    • Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. schovat popis

      Reflections in a Golden Eye
      3,9