El corazón es un cazador solitario

Author: Carson McCullers
- Fiction
- Editorial Seix Barral
- ISBN: 9786070743269
- Release Date: 10-24-2017

Synopsis

Centrada en el ambiente de una pequeña ciudad sureña y en un grupo de personas que —en torno a la figura emblemática del sordomudo John Singer— tienen en común la esencial soledad, su marginalidad y el rechazo de una sociedad que los ignora, El corazón es un cazador solitario nos sumerge de lleno en un viaje por las profundidades del alma humana. Escrita en 1940, El corazón es un cazador solitario dio a conocer la magnitud del talento de Carson McCullers. Esta pieza maestra justifica sobradamente las palabras que Graham Greene escribió acerca de la escritora: «Ella y quizá William Faulkner son, tras la muerte de D.H. Laurence, los únicos escritores con una sensibilidad poética original». Con tan sólo veintitrés años, Carson McCullers publicó su primera novela, El corazón es un cazador solitario, que revolucionó el panorama literario estadounidense y se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las obras capitales de la narrativa norteamericana y en un clásico de la novela contemporánea. NUEVA COLECCIÓN CON ILUSTRACIONES DE SARA MORANTE EN EL 100.º ANIVERSARIO DEL NACIMIENTO Y EL 50.º ANIVERSARIO DE LA MUERTE DE CARSON MCCULLERSUna de las grandes maestras de la literatura norteamericana, un clásico indiscutible.

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated-and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. 
Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the New York Times. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best.

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