Literatura norteamericana
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“The twenty-seventh city” by Jonathan Franzen “St Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed than the city′s leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction,
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“Players” by Don DeLillo “Players is Don DeLillo’s fifth novel, published in 1977. It follows Lyle and Pammy Wynant, a young and affluent Manhattan couple whose casual boredom is overturned by their willing participation in chaotic detours from the everyday.” Extraído de la Wikipedia. Ver además: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/lifetimes/del-r-players.html http://www.slideshare.net/AutoSurfRestarter/players-by-don-delillo http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra
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“The widow´s children“ by Paula Fox “On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch and sodas and awaiting the arrival of three guests: Clara, Laura′s timid daughter from a previous marriage; Carlos, Laura′s flamboyant brother; and Peter, a
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“V.: a novel” by Thomas Pynchon “This is the first novel by the author of Gravity’s Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from its strange heroine, the book’s characters include sailors,
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“The pastures of heaven” by John Steinbeck “The Pastures of Heaven is a short story cycle by John Steinbeck, first published in 1932, consisting of twelve interconnected stories about a valley in Monterey, California, which was discovered by a Spanish corporal while chasing runaway Indian slaves.” Extraído de Wikipedia. Ver además: http://www.suite101.com/content/john-steinbecks-the-pastures-of-heaven-a74529 http://as.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/teaching_steinbeck/index.jsp?val=teaching_pastures_of_heaven_homepage http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck Los
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“Pnin” by Vladimir Nabokov “Nabokov’s comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions, Pnin does halting battle with American life and language. But in this moving, amusing story of
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“The dying animal” by Philip Roth “The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel by the US writer Philip Roth. It tells the story of senior literature professor David Kepesh, renowned for his literature-themed radio show. Kepesh is finally destroyed by his inability to comprehend emotional commitment.” Extraído de Wikipedia. Ver además: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Roth http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/27/reviews/010527.27scottt.html http://www.newstatesman.com/200604240034
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“A dead hand: a crime in Calcutta “by Paul Theroux “Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer’s block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap
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“El aliento del cielo: cuentos completos” por Carson McCullers “Carson McCullers transmitió con una maestría insuperable la grandeza y la tragedia del alma humana. Su obra ha seducido a generaciones de lectores, mientras la crítica la encumbraba en el pedestal de los clásicos del siglo XX. El aliento del cielo comprende la totalidad de sus
Las novedades destacadas de la semana
“I married a communist” by Philip Roth “I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man,