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Cargando... Etiquetas : viaje por el Mediterráneopor Evelyn Waugh
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. En 1929, el brillante y ácido escritor Evelyn Waugh tuvo la oportunidad de emprender un viaje a lo largo y ancho de todo el Mediterráneo, de Monte Carlo a Port Said, de El Cairo a Sevilla, pasando por ciudades como Nápoles, Constantinopla, Argel o Barcelona. Waugh, por entonces un valor emergente de la literatura inglesa, quiso dejar testimonio escrito de esta odisea. Sin embargo, como era consciente de lo poco original de sus destinos, se propuso dar una vuelta de tuerca a su relato y analizar los lugares y laspersonas que conoció adoptando una postura diferente, ingeniosa y muy, muy británica, que ya se adivina en el curioso título de este libro de viajes, «porque todos los lugares que visité durante mi viaje ya están perfectamente etiquetados». La perspicaz mirada del autor para captar los detalles y su afilada pluma dibujan con acierto y humor un paisaje humano que se despliega ante nosotros, haciendo de Waugh un compañero de viaje ideal y de Etiquetas un libro espléndido y entretenidísimo
Labels is a description of people during the twilight of the old British Empire traveling through a world which was the Englishman’s oyster. It is easy to become nostalgic about a world “where the sun never set on the Union Jack.” Waugh would live to see this world come crashing down in the flames of the Second World War and its aftermath. Labels remains an entertaining and enlightening account of travel through the world of a bygone age. Written as a semi-fictionalized travelogue in which Waugh casts himself not only as a batchelor (when in truth he was on his honeymoon) but also as an innocent abroad, Labels is a hilarious account of his 1929 travels. Like his novels, Waugh’s Labels is ruthlessly satirical. Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enAparece abreviada en
Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design. Evelyn Waugh chose the name Labels for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already 'fully labelled'; in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan merchants - as he cruises around the Mediterranean his pen cuts through the local colour to give an entertaining portrait of the Englishman abroad. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)910.91822History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. exploration Geography of and travel in areas, regions, places in general Other kinds of terrestrial regions Ocean And Sea Basins Mediterranean regionClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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