Cuentos de Carson McCullers / The Short Stories of Carson McCullers

Uno de los m嫳 importantes exponentes, junto con William Faulkner, de la narrativa del sur de Estados Unidos.

Adem嫳 de ser autora de varias novelas, obras de teatro, ensayos, poemas y una autobiograf燰, Carson McCullers (Columbus, Georgia, 1917 - Nueva York, 1967) public?veinte relatos breves, nueve de los cuales, valorados entre sus m嫳 logradas creaciones, conforman esta selecci鏮, que incorpora algunas de sus primeras piezas, como Sucker , El aliento del cielo o Wunderkind , y otras de m嫳 tard燰 escritura, como Un 嫫bol. Una roca. Una nube , El transete o Qui幯 ha visto el viento? .

Encumbrada al pante鏮 de escritores sure隳s 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 璯timo de sus turbulencias a trav廥 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.