Alfred Hayes

New York in the 1950s. A man on a barstool is telling a story about a woman he met in a bar, early married and soon divorced, her child farmed out to her parents, good-looking, if a little past her prime. Theyd gone out, theyd grown close, but as far as he was concerned it didnt add up to much. He was a busy man. Then one day, out dancing, she runs into a rich awkward lovelorn businessman. Hell pay for her to be his, pay her a lot. And now the narrator discovers that he is as much in love with her as she is with him, perhaps more, though it will take him a while to realize just how utterly lost he is.Executed with the cool smoky brilliance of a classic Miles Davis track, In Love is an unequaled exploration of the tetheredand untetheredheart.

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See Rome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcini's house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayes'own experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men and women, victor and vanquished. 'Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women, and they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences' Paul Bailey, Guardian 'Rings true as gold ... every single character in the book is sharp with the infallible stroke of art' Daily Mail

Hayess masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York.In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a pretty girl a story: of how he fell into a relationship with a lonely young divorcee of how one night she was offered a thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Alfred Hayess exquisite novella, love - in all its bewildering turns of longing, elation, heartbreak and regret - is dissected with unforgettable honesty and heartbreaking clarity.

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide into a casual relationship together, but as they become ever more entangled, he realises that his actions may have more serious consequences than he could ever have suspected. Hayes exquisite novella, written in his cool, inimitable style, holds a revealing light to the hollowness of the Hollywood dream and exposes the untruths we tell ourselves, even when we think we have left illusions behind.A masterpiece ... an insiders manual for all those who would aspire to fame, the ghostly glamour of the movies Nicholas Lezard, GuardianHayes is the poet of the things we think about while lying in bed, when sleep refuses to carry us off David Thomson

Alfred Hayes escribió por única vez una obra maestra. Las fórmulas del amor -las que suponen un paraíso de éxtasis y felicidad, las que reclaman un vacío recíproco de identidad y posesión- pueden incluirse en los pliegues del relato, que consiente todas las situaciones y circunstancias capaces de sustentarlas. Afinada y entonada por una voz que no permite dudar acerca de lo que cuenta, esta novela inédita hasta ahora en español despertó la admiración del público y de lectores tan exigentes como Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith y Antonia White. Este tribunal femenino respalda la turbulenta veracidad o por lo menos la verosimilitud tortuosa de una confesión: la del espléndido aislamiento de un hombre perdido en el laberinto de su amor.

Alfred Hayes (1911-1985) és un dels mestres secrets de la novel·la del segle XX. Amb un estil impecable, contingut i efectiu, cobert amb un tel de melancolia, va escriure sobre la passió i les seves consequencies.Una cara coneguda sambienta a Hollywood, on la tonica es la fama i on nomes ets viu en la mesura que es viva i real la teva imatge. En una festa, un guionista de cert renom rescata una jove força bonica que, embriagada, sendinsa a locea Pacifi c. Ell, un home casat, fa temps que ha deixat de fer-se il·lusions i ja nespera ben poc, de la vida. De fet, nomes desitja estar sol. No obstant aixo, sense pensar- shi gaire, sinvolucra amb la jove.Amb una prosa equilibrada, Alfred Hayes descriu amb una elegancia aclaparadora uns personatges que encarnen la fragilitat humana i retrata amb una precisio envejable la desesperacio, la degradacio i la solitud que en algun moment de la vida ens pot afectar a tots. Ras i curt: literatura en majuscules.

La organización del presente trabajo sigue un formato lógico que contiene, en primer lugar, información introductoria sobre los sistemas y medios de comunicación antes de profundizar en temas más detallados sobre cada tipo de medio: cobre, inalambrico y de fibra optica.

This heart-stoppingly good masterpiece about a crumbling love affair in 1950s New York perfectly captures the desperate desire for love and the recognition that it is slipping away (Slate).One of the greatest, bleakest breakup stories ever told. The New York ObserverNew York in the 1950s. A man on a barstool is telling a story about a woman he met in a bar, early married and soon divorced, her child farmed out to her parents, good-looking, if a little past her prime. Theyd gone out, theyd grown close, but as far as he was concerned it didnt add up to much. He was a busy man.Then one day, out dancing, she runs into a rich awkward lovelorn businessman. Hell pay for her to be his, pay her a lot. And now the narrator discovers that he is as much in love with her as she is with him, perhaps more, though it will take him a while to realize just how utterly lost he is.Executed with the cool smoky brilliance of a classic Miles Davis track, In Love is an unequaled exploration of the tetheredand untetheredheart.

Hayess masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a pretty girl a story: of how he fell into a relationship with a lonely young divorcee; of how one night she was offered a thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Alfred Hayess exquisite novella, love - in all its bewildering turns of longing, elation, heartbreak and regret - is dissected with unforgettable honesty and heartbreaking clarity.

Alfred Hayes is one of the secret masters of the twentieth century novel, a journalist and scriptwriter and poet who possessed an immaculate ear and who wrote with razorsharp intelligence about passion and its payback.My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and youre only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young woman, who has, it seems, no illusions about love, especially with married men. Shes a survivor, even if her beauty is a little battered from years of not quite making it in the pictures. Shes just like him, he thinks, and as their casual relationship takes on an increasingly troubled and destructive intensity, it seems that might just be true, only not in the way he supposes.

Todo comienza con un guionista de Hollywood durante una fiesta en una casa frente al mar. Está solo y aburrido, y para evadirse de la charla convencional sale a la terraza y ve a uno de los invitados, una chica, que camina hasta la orilla. Primero no hace mas que admirar su figura, pero en seguida advierte que ella quiere suicidarse y se precipita a la playa para intentar rescatarla. Un acto de compromiso, que tiempo despues va a lamentar.En esta nueva novela, Alfred Hayes toma a dos personajes caracteristicos, el escritor cinico y una aspirante a actriz, y describe la relacion entre ellos revirtiendo todos los estereotipos de las historias de amor desencantado. Hayes sabe retratar como nadie a las personas que no pueden ayudarse a si mismas y que tampoco pueden resistir la tentacion de lastimar, y tiene el don de analizarlas y diseccionarlas con una precision lapidaria. Esa vision de la conducta humana es, como en Los enamorados, despiadada pero admirable.Con su arte refinadisimo, Que el mundo me conozca proyecta en la pagina un relato conmovedor en el que ningun valor permanece inalterado, salvo la verdad y la belleza.

An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New YorkIn a hotel bar, a disenchanted writer tells a beautiful stranger the story of his latest doomed love affair. Sipping cocktails, the man reveals how he became transfixed by a lonely divorcee living in a cluttered apartment across the city.When they first met, he had been aloof, uncommitted. But this changed irrevocably when a millionaire waltzed into his lovers life, offering her a thousand dollars to spend the night. With betrayal lurking in the shadows and proclamations of feeling arriving too late, In Love is an exquisite examination of heartbreak set in 1950s New York.

Alors qu’il s’échappe de la villa où une fête hollywoodienne bat son plein, un scénariste en vogue aperçoit une jeune femme se jeter dans locéan en contrebas. L’ayant sauvée d’une noyade assurée, lui

La vie sourit à Asher. Lui qui se rêvait écrivain est devenu scénariste à succès. Largent rentre à flots aussi vite quil venait à manquer autrefois. Son logement miteux dans un quartier malfamé de Ne

A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers.Ashers career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up, he takes a room at a hotel and wonders what, well into middle age as he is, he should do next. Its not a question of money; its a question of purpose, maybe of pride. In the company of the arch young poet Michael, Asher revisits the streets and tenements of the Lower East Side where he spent his childhood, though little remains of the past. Michael introduces Asher to Aurora, perhaps his girlfriend, who, to Ashers surprise, seems bent on pursuing him, too. Soon the older man and his edgy young companions are caught up in a slow, strange, almost ritualized dance of deceit and desire. The End of Me, a successor to Hayess In Love and My Face for the World to See, can be seen as the final panel of a triptych in which Alfred Hayes anatomizes, with a cool precision and laconic lyricism that are all his own, the failure of modern love. The last scene is the starkest of all.

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to SeeRome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged to seek work at Mamma Pulcinis house on the Via Flaminia. Their lives come together in what should be a simple exchange, a temporary arrangement without love or complication. But in a city broken by war, its people defeated, nothing is simple. Based on Alfred Hayesown experiences of wartime Italy, this spare, searing novel exposes the dark complexities of the relationship between men and women, victor and vanquished. Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women, and they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences Paul Bailey, GuardianRings true as gold ... every single character in the book is sharp with the infallible stroke of artDaily Mail

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide into a casual relationship together, but as they become ever more entangled, he realises that his actions may have more serious consequences than he could ever have suspected. Hayes exquisite novella, written in his cool, inimitable style, holds a revealing light to the hollowness of the Hollywood dream and exposes the untruths we tell ourselves, even when we think we have left illusions behind.A masterpiece ... an insiders manual for all those who would aspire to fame, the ghostly glamour of the movies Nicholas Lezard, GuardianHayes is the poet of the things we think about while lying in bed, when sleep refuses to carry us off David Thomson

«Un dels millors llibres mai escrits sobre la fi d'una relació amorosa… La bellesa de les frases de Hayes recrea la agonia, sovint inexplicable, que comporta una relació que s'està morint. » The New

Un hombre en fuga termina encontrando siempre su pasado. Quien huye en Mi perdición es Asher, un guionista que abandona Hollywood después de descubrir a su esposa en brazos de un compañero de tenis. Viaja a Nueva York, ciudad de su infancia, donde conoce a una pareja de jovenes irreverentes: Michael, un poeta rudo que escribe versos pornograficos, y Aurora, una atrevida italianita dispuesta a visitar su cuarto de hotel casi todas las noches. Michael no tiene problemas en "prestarle" a su novia a cambio de un sueldo como acompañante en sus exploraciones por una Nueva York ya perdida. Pronto, sin embargo, se revela que el trio amoroso no es mas que una trampa en la que Asher terminara siempre mal parado, un juego cruel que le enseñara los limites morales de su propia generacion.Escrita a fines de los sesenta, una decada que puso en situacion de idolatria a la juventud, esta novela de Alfred Hayes deslumbra con la honestidad y el despojamiento estilistico de siempre. Genio incomparable de la captura del instante, del fuego de la intensidad y del veredicto de decadencia inmediata, Hayes se muestra en Mi perdicion, al igual que lo habia hecho en Los enamorados y Que el mundo me conozca, como un autor insustituible, sui generis, unico en su especie.