Carson McCullers Libros

Con tan sólo 23 años, Carson McCullers publicó El corazón es un cazador solitario, una de las obras capitales de la narrativa contemporánea. Estas páginas presentan, por primera vez en nuestra lengua, el esbozo inicial de la novela –titulada en un principio «El mudo»– y revelan el proceso de creación del personaje más emblemático de la autora, el sordomudo John Singer. Los textos que siguen, también inéditos en castellano, conceden al lector el privilegio de compartir los pensamientos sobre literatura de Carson McCullers: el despertar de su vocación de escritora, su pasión por la lectura, su admiración por Isak Dinesen o los paralelismos entre la escritura sureña y los realistas rusos. «Los siete ensayos que completan este libro [...] regresan una y otra vez a esos días en los que una joven solitaria y única y convaleciente leía todo lo que caía en sus manos y en sus ojos (novelas rusas, cuentos góticos) y se soltaba del teclado de un piano para colgarse del teclado de una máquina de escribir para así experimentar cómo germinaba en ella el sueño despierto de su primera pero no última “misteriosa creación”. Óiganla —léanla— florecer.» Rodrigo Fresán

Edición e introducción de Carlos L. Dews; traducción de Ana Mª Moix y Ana Becciu

A single volume collection of the celebrated writer's novels includes the complete texts of five novels.

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.

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.

When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal.  The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with  violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some  -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. From the Paperback edition.

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.

A collection of McCullers best short stories about grotesque people and situations in the southern United States.

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".