Maeve Brennan

Maeve Brennan es una de las escritoras más relevantes del siglo XX, y «De Dublín a Nueva York» es la recopilación de su mejor obra literaria. De los relatos dublineses a las crónicas de Nueva York, d

En Crónicas de Nueva York, Maeve Brennan nos ofrece certeras y evocadoras viñetas de la vida neoyorquina en los 50 y los 60, revelando al lector las mil caras fugaces de esta fascinante ciudad, todas las pequeñas historias sin nombre que palpitan en su seno, las pequeñas alegrias y tragedias que transitan sus calles y que ella, no en vano admirada por escritores como John Updike o Alice Munro, supo captar como nadie.

The tale of Anastasia King who returns to her grandmother's house in Dublin after six long years away. She has been in Paris comforting her dying mother, who ran away from Anastasia's late father, her grandmother's only son. It is a story of Dublin and the unreachable side of the Irish temperament.

Maeve Brennan pertenece a esa familia de escritores clásicos que están aun por descubrir y cuya obra ha dormido durante demasiado tiempo el sueño de los justos. La novela que ahora publicamos se cuenta entre sus primeras obras y fue descubierta recientemente en el archivo de la autora custodiado por la universidad de Notre Dame. Se trata de una novela corta, una nouvelle donde todo esta perfectamente equilibrado, medido y ajustado, a la manera de Chejov y Flaubert. La obra cuenta la historia de Anastasia King, una joven de veintidos años que regresa a su Dublin natal tras la muerte de su padre, separado desde hacia años de su madre, con quien la chica vivia en Paris. Anastasia se reencuentra asi con su distante y vengativa abuela, que no ha perdonado que su nuera abandonara a su hijo y se marchara de Irlanda.

Publicados por primera vez en castellano, los cuentos que forman parte de El jardín de rosas originariamente aparecieron en The New Yorker y Harpers Bazaar. En la década de 1940, Maeve Brennan era una joven colaboradora de ambas publicaciones, al principio relegada a columnas de moda, noticias sobre la sociedad y algunas reseñas, hasta que en 1950 aparecio su cuento "El terror sagrado" y las cosas cambiaron para siempre.Con una fuerte impronta autobiografica, en sus relatos resuena la errancia entre su Dublin natal y Nueva York ciudad que adopto como hogar desde muy joven y hasta el resto de sus dias, su mirada aguda sobre pequeños objetos y situaciones de la vida diaria y una sensibilidad unica capaz de retratar con humor los recovecos mas oscuros de los vinculos cotidianos.Celebrada y admirada por autoras como Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro y Edna OBrien, la obra de Brennan ocupa un lugar fundamental en la tradicion literaria irlandesa.

A literary eventtwenty short stories spanning Dublin and New York Cityfrom the acclaimed "Long-Winded Lady" of The New Yorker, Maeve BrennanWhen The Springs of Affection was published in 1997, the poet Eamon Grennan called it a classic, a book that placed Maeve Brennan among the best Irish short-story writers since Joyce. The Rose Garden gathers the rest of her short fiction, some of it set in her native Dublina city, like Joyces, of paralyzed souls and unexpressed lovebut most of it in and around her adopted Manhattan, which she once called "the capsized cityhalfcapsized, anyway, with the inhabitants hanging on, most of them still able to laugh as they cling to the island that is their lifes predicament."The riches here are many, but the collections centerpiece is a suite of satirical scenes from suburban life, stories a little meaner than Cheevers, and wittier than Updikes (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Some of the stories are quietly tender, some ferociously satirical, some unique in their chilly emotional weather; all are Maeve Brennan at her incomparable best.

A collection of twenty-one stories centering three Irish families from The New Yorkers acclaimed Long-Winded Lady, Maeve BrennanThe stories collected here trace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, loses all power of expression and then vanishes forever. The natural love of sister for brother and of mother for son is twisted into the rage to possess. And love that gives rise to the rituals of family lifethose "ordinary customs that are the only true realities most of us ever know"grows solid as rock that will never give way.With an introduction by William Maxwell, who was for twenty years Maeve Brennans editor, The Springs of Affection reveals Brennan to be one of the most innovative and important writers of the 20th century.

From celebrated Irish writer Maeve Brennan, The New Yorkers Long-Winded Lady, comes The Visitorthe earliest of all of her known writingsthat tells the haunting story of a young woman who returns to her grandmothers home only to face the painful consequences of long-buried family secrets Anastasia King returns to her grandmothers house in Dublinthe very house where she grew upafter six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasias late father, her grandmothers only son. Its a pity she sent for you, the grandmother says, smiling with anger. And a pity you went after her. It broke your fathers heart. Anastasia pays dearly for the choice she made, a choice that now costs her her own strong sense of family and makes her an exilea visitorin the place she once called home.Found unexpectedly in a university archive, this previously unpublished novella from the 1940s is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper. With its sharp exploration of emotional exile and familial resentment, The Visitor deepens Brennans legacy as a master of psychological tension and quiet, devastating drama.

Maeve Brennan . . . helped put New York back into The New Yorker, and has written about the city of the sixties with both honesty and affection . . . She is constantly alert, sharp-eyed as a sparrow for the crumbs of human event, the overheard and the glimpsed and the guessed at, that form a solitary city persons least expensive amusement. John Updike, author of Rabbit, RunFrom 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker under the pen name "The LongWinded Lady." Her unforgettable sketchesprose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Villagetogether form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the "most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities."First published in 1969, The LongWinded Lady is a celebration of one of the twentieth centurys most accomplished storytellers and documentarians of city life. As contemporary culture revisits with new appreciation the pioneering female voices of the past century, Maeve Brennan remains a writer whose dazzling work continues to embolden a new generation.

Las fuentes del afecto. Cuentos dublineses es una obra formada en realidad por tres ciclos de relatos, todos con la ciudad de Dublín como escenario: los primeros, con tintes autobiográficos, están narrados y protagonizados por una niña llamada Maeve; los siguientes se centran en la vida de dos matrimonios (los Derdon y los Bagot) y se vuelven mucho mas implacables, lacerantes y claustrofobicos, al mostrar poco a poco el declive, la soledad, el desamparo y el desencanto de unas existencias que, a traves de los años, se apagan irremediablemente en la incomunicacion y el vacio. La sublime nouvelle que cierra la coleccion y da titulo al libro esta considerada por Alice Munro y William Maxwell una de las mejores narraciones de la literatura en lengua inglesa del siglo XX.La belleza de estas paginas inolvidables duele, es un apocalipsis a fuegolento y deberia suponer la reivindicacion definitiva de Maeve Brennan como autora.

Publicados por primera vez en castellano, los cuentos que forman parte de El jardín de rosas originariamente aparecieron enThe New Yorker y Harper’s Bazaar. En la década de 1940, Maeve Brennan era un

Maeve Brennan es una de las escritoras más relevantes del siglo XX, y «De Dublín a Nueva York» es la recopilación de su mejor obra literaria. De los relatos dublineses a las crónicas de Nueva York, d