Elizabeth Smart

La història d’una passió viscuda amb una intensitat extraordinària. Una de les grans fites literàries del segle XX. Un llibre de culte.

Elizabeth Smart narra la pasión de una mujer por un hombre casado. El extraordinario talento de la autora radica en convertir esta historia banal en una personalísima visión del mundo, de la literatu

As Seen on The Today ShowIn this powerful memoir of survival and healing, Elizabeth Smart empowers readers to navigate lifes detours, embrace resilience, and find healing and purpose after adversity.In Detours, Elizabeth Smart explores how trauma can derail ones path in life and shares her struggles with captivity, reintegration, and resilience. Using the metaphor of life as a road, Smart introduces four key Rest Stops for navigating lifes detoursgrieving lost paths, embracing change, seeking connections, and redefining destinations. Through themes of hope, community, and self-discovery, she inspires readers to find strength in their own journeys toward healing.

First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, this remarkable book further established Smarts reputation as a brave and inspirational writer.A still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality the untenable position of love. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a maturity a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back.Hers is a voice that distils a womans determination for survival a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub and in Elizabeth Smarts hand is wrought into something magnificent.

Esta novela autobiográfica, publicada por primera vez en 1945, y que muy pronto se convertiría en un verdadero libro de culto al ser traducida a numerosos idiomas, narra con un lenguaje prodigioso, lleno de imagenes tan originales como potentes, la pasion de su autora por un hombre casado del que se enamoraria incluso antes de conocerlo personalmente. Este libro influencio en las composiciones de Morrisey, tanto para sus canciones en solitario como para las que escribio en The Smiths; algo claro en titulos como London, What she said, Louder than bombs, Late night, Maudlin Street, por ejemploExplora la pasion entre un hombre y dos mujeres, una de ellas, la esposa; un amor tan desesperado como triunfante en el que el lector puede sentirse abrumado, en el que puede verse reflejado o incluso sentir envidia., The Times Recomendamos este libro no solo por su uso del lenguaje, apasionado y sensual, sino en tanto que conmovedor soliloquio sobre el amor y el mundo contemporaneo., Times Literary Supplement La emocion, la afliccion verdadera y total consiguen conmover al lector., London Review of Books

En Grand Central Station me senté y lloré narraba, con un lenguaje lleno de imágenes tan originales como potentes, la pasión de Elizabeth Smart por un hombre casado del que se enamoraría incluso antes de conocerlo personalmente. Con aquel amante tuvo Smart varios hijos, de los que tendria que ocuparse, sola, en los años siguientes a la Segunda Guerra Mundial... Esa segunda parte de su vida es la que narra en Los picaros y los canallas van al cielo, publicado mas de treinta años despues de su anterior novela autobiografica, pero escrito con el mismo poderoso lenguaje. No hay gas; no hay calefaccion; apenas hay comida. Asi comienza esta historia, el escenario del drama, en el que otras mujeres de rostros crispados, tambien sin maridos, abofetean a sus niños en busca de alivio. Largas colas para abastecerse, miseria en las miradas, las ruinas de la guerra Y en medio de todo ello, ¿ha llegado la hora del arrepentimiento, de la expiacion? Una novela hermosa y perturbadora.

Elizabeth Smarts passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning A masterpiece. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly and, as a result of Barkers impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him and his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. Originally published in 1945, this remarkable book is now widely identified as a classic work of poetic prose which, seven decades later, has retained all of its searing poignancy, beauty and power of impact.