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El Favor de la Sirena / The Largesse of the Sea Maiden


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En la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018

El último libro de relatos de Denis Johnson.
Una obra póstuma en el primer aniversario de su muerte.

Escritos poco antes de su muerte, los relatos de este libro memorable representan el testamento literario de un autor imprescindible de las letras universales. Son cinco, cinco relatos rebosantes de humor, de profundidad, de fuerza, de belleza que se interrogan de un modo casi profético sobre el final de la vida.

Un ejecutivo acepta a sus sesenta años que ya se encuentra cerca de la última parada cuando su exmujer le llama para comunicarle que se está muriendo, sin que él tenga claro de cuál de sus exesposas se trata. Otro hombre recuerda la sentencia que a los dieciocho años cumplió en prisión con un peculiar elenco de delincuentes; cuarenta días de condena que bastaron para cambiar su vida. Un escritor ve cómo sus amigos mueren mientras su propio cuerpo empieza también a traicionarle. Y otro más escribe cartas desde un centro de desintoxicación para conjurar los fantasmas de aquellos que amó y odió.

Con estas miradas francas a la vejez y la mortalidad, Johnson firma una coda vitalista y depurada de sentimentalismos. Consciente de que le queda poco tiempo, rompe la distancia entre el autor y sus lectores con frases que aprietan el nudo que ha ido tejiendo en nuestras gargantas relato a relato:

«El mundo sigue girando. Es evidente para usted que mientras escribo esto no he muerto. Pero puede que sí cuando lo lea.»

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A Publisher Weekly Best Book 2018
Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.

Finished shortly before Johnson's death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.
About the Author: Denis Johnson (1949-2017) nació en Munich, pero se crió en Tokio, Manila y Washington. Desde la publicación de sus primeras obras se convirtió en un autor de culto en Estados Unidos. Recibió la beca Lanna Fellowship y el Whiting Writer's Award, entre otros muchos galardones. En 2007 le fue concedido el National Book Award por su novela Árbol de Humo (Literatura Random House, 2008). También es autor de la novela negra Que nadie se mueva (Roja y Negra, 2012) y de las novelas Hijo de Jesús, Sueños de trenes, El nombre del mundo y Los monstruos que ríen, todas ellas publicadas en Literatura Random House.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788439734154
  • Publisher: Literatura Random House
  • ISBN-10: 8439734158
  • Publisher Date: 21 Aug 2018


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