Katherine Anne Porter

Reunidos en un solo volumen todos los cuentos de una de las grandes narradoras norteamericanas del siglo XX. Katherine Anne Porter comparte geografía literaria —el sur de Estados Unidos— con William

The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New York Times, "she would be among the most distinguished masters of her craft in this country.

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardwinning volume of writings from the author of Pale Horse, Pale Ridernow combined with little-known works of prose for the very first time Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory. Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than thirty, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, many are unsurpassed in modern fiction. The Library of America now reprints the landmark 1965 volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porterwhich features tales like Pale Horse, Pale Rider and Flowering Judasand pairs it with a completely new selection from Porters long-out-of-print short prose. Expanding the contents of her 1952 collection The Days Before to include both early journalism and major pieces from her final three decades, the prose works collected here are grouped in four parts: critical essays on writers she loved and learned from, including James, Cather, Lawrence, and Colette; personal essays and speeches on such topics as the craft of writing, her own work, women in myth and in history, and American politics; essays and reports on Mexican life, letters, and revolution; and two previously uncollected forays into autobiography.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The classic 1944 collection of ten short stories by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardwinning author and journalist Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the ten gems in this collection affirm Katherine Anne Porters genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory. The collection includes The Old Order, a sequence of short stories that paints a devastating portrait of the racial inequities that plague life in the American South, as well as other selected stories such as The Leaning Tower and The Downward Path to Wisdom.

Lescandol, la tragedia i la mort planen sobre les tres novel·les curtes que conformen el volum Pal·lid cavall, pal·lid genet, de laclamada autora tot i que no gaire coneguda a casa nostra Katherine Anne Porter. La seva es una obra cabdal de la literatura nord-americana del segle xx. Lantiga condicio mortal relata el pas a ledat adulta de la Miranda i la seva germana, sota lombra mitica duna tieta que va morir massa jove i massa lliure. En El vi del migdia laparicio dun foraster misterios porta el benestar i la desgracia a una granja de Texas. A Pal·lid cavall, pal·lid genet, que dona nom al recull, ens retrobem amb la Miranda alter ego de lautora al llarg de la seva carrera. Segons Joyce Carol Oates, es lobra de ficcio mes famosa i reeixida sobre lepidemia de grip de 1918, brillant i captivadora.Cinc vegades candidata al premi Nobel, Katherine Anne Porter va rebre, pel conjunt dels seus relats i novel·les curtes, el premi Pulitzer i el National Book Award lany 1966.Una mestra de la novel·la curta, capaç de captar la condicio humana amb una precisio extraordinaria,Flannery OConnorPorter escriu amb una claredat i una precisio insuperables, amb una bellesa que recorda els classics,Saul BellowMestimo la Katherine Anne Porter,Alice Munro

The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918 In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious strangeronly to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of Old Mortality introduce the teenager Miranda and chronicle her journey of self-discovery, as she gradually realizes her familys romantic nostalgia for her absent uncle and late aunt bears little resemblance to the truth. Miranda returns in the title story, Pale Horse, Pale Rider. She is now working as a drama critic for a newspaper in Denver, where she falls in love with a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When Miranda falls ill, Adam cares for her until she is moved to a hospital. Throughout her ordeal, on everyones mind is the war, the war, the WAR to end WAR, war for Democracy, for humanity, a safe world forever and ever.Available in this exclusive Library of America e-book edition

Reunidos en un solo volumen todos los cuentos de una de las grandes narradoras norteamericanas del siglo XX.Katherine Anne Porter comparte geografía literaria —el sur de Estados Unidos— con William F

Reunidos en un solo volumen todos los cuentos de una de las grandes narradoras norteamericanas del siglo XX. Katherine Anne Porter comparte geografía literaria —el sur de Estados Unidos— con William

Reunidos en un solo volumen todos los cuentos de una de las grandes narradoras norteamericanas del siglo XX.El presente volumen reúne, por primera vez en castellano, todos los cuentos de la gran escritora norteamericana Katherine Anne Porter. A sus tres libros primordiales,Judas en Flor, Palido caballo, palido jinete yLa torre inclinada, se le añaden ahora algunos cuentos que nunca antes se habian recogido en libro alguno.Katherine Anne Porter comparte geografia literaria -el sur de Estados Unidos- con William Faulkner y Flannery O''Connor, pero su estilo frugal y poetico explora territorios distintos. Sus personajes, perseguidos por la violencia y la incertidumbre del mundo mexicano, luchan por la supervivencia, escindidos entre la sensualidad y la locura. De esa tierra arida, abandonada por los dioses, surge un espacio mitico del que Katherine Anne Porter sabe arrancar dolorosos destellos de belleza.EstosCuentos completos fueron merecedores delNational Book Award en 1965 y delPremio Pulitzer en 1969.Reseñas:En la literatura norteamericana del siglo hay solo dos grandes artistas: Flannery O''Connor y Katherine Anne Porter.Truman CapoteKatherine Anne Porter escribe con una pureza y una precision casi unicas en la ficcion contemporanea.Edmund wilson