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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I had never heard of Sergio Pitol, a renown Mexican author, before getting this book. This isn't a huge surprise, though, because his work really hadn't been translated into English until just before his death in 2018. This collection of short stories were selected by Pitol as some of his favorites from across his career (they are arranged chronologically by publication date, ranging from 1957-1994). The stories are challenging and engrossing and difficult to describe. Pitol was a fiction writer throughout his life, but professionally he was also a diplomat (he spoke seven languages and lived all over the world, eventually serving as Mexico's ambassador to Czechoslovakia in the 1980s), and a translator. His stories are frequently about Mexican diplomats or businessmen or writers living abroad. Often the stories are about the process of writing. The narrator may start by remembering an incident from his past, then veers to a work in progress and tries on different ways to start the story, then veers again. In almost all the cases, we are dropped into the story with a series of sentences that barely hold together, with clauses and diversions that necessitate visiting the start of the sentence again once you've finally come to the end of it. That sounds bad, but it is actually amazing! Once you get into the stories a bit, it all comes together, and the mix of memoir and fiction, and Pitol's ability to pull the reader close at the same time that he pushes you away, make for some very unusual and compelling stories. ( )Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This is an extraordinary collection. As I read I felt like I was in the presence of a unique and creative and perceptive and restless mind. The stories challenged me. Frequently I found myself wondering what I was missing. But I just lived with that feeling, because it never got in the way of another feeling, the feeling of being given a gift, the gift of a new way of seeing, a new way of perceiving the world, a new way of thinking about language and its intentions. Of being in the company of a very unusual person, someone with unique perspectives. One thing I never felt was that Pitol was trying to make things easy for me. I needed to be an equal partner. I needed to pay attention. I was deeply rewarded. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I have to assume the excessive run-on sentences are from the original and not the translator. They are longer than Dickens' sentences. So long, that I repeatedly, in multiple stories, lost the original thread of the sentence and no longer knew what I was reading. I tried, and I tried a few times. But I could not follow a single story and gave up. Sorry, this author might be a treasure in his home country, but just because it went above my head does not mean it's profound. This is an utterly extraordinary collection. As I read I felt like I was in the presence of a tremendously creative and perceptive and restless mind. The stories challenged me. Frequently I found myself wondering what I was missing. But I just lived with that feeling, because it never got in the way of another feeling this writing gave me, the feeling of being given a gift, of a new way of seeing, a new way of perceiving the world, a new way of thinking about language and its intentions. One thing I never felt was that Pitol was trying to make things easy for me. I needed to be an equal partner. I needed to pay attention. I was deeply rewarded. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Sadly, I am not the audience for this and had to put it down. The second story delighted in constructing run-on sentences with dozens of dependent and subordinate clauses. I couldn't parse.The first story was at least understandable. It was merely boring. Unreliable narrator thinks himself powerful. We'll just peek into his mindset for 99% of the story and then pull back to a "neutral" view and find out that was all a lie. This collection is really meant for type of reader who wants to contemplate 3 different levels of meaning embodied by many descriptive words. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: Dice Pitol que en unas vacaciones, solitario en una casa de campo, comenzó a escribir sus primeros cuentos. Debía de tener veintitrés o veinticuatro años. Pasaba allí la convalecencia de una ruptura amorosa, también la primera. Se proponía odiar al mundo, pero no lo conseguía. Por las mañanas escalaba las alturas de una cordillera donde se enclavaba su cabaña. En esos paseos intentaba rodearse de una aureola romántica, decadente, aun diabólica. Buscaba los acantilados más escabrosos, los más peligrosos, pero al llegar allí cualquier tentación tanática se disolvía de inmediato; le venían a la mente los acantilados de Devon y un viaje a Inglaterra: recorrer las mismas calles que James, la Woolf, Waugh, el doctor Johnson, Dickens, y entre ese deseo de viajar y la contemplación de un maravilloso paisaje -los bosques, algunos arroyos, una lejana iglesia del siglo XVI parecida a una fortaleza, muy cercana a un pequeño hotel donde descansaba Stravinski cuando iba a México-, se adormecía largo rato en la hierba, para después descender de la montaña, llegar, radiante de alegría, a su casa, ponerse a leer a James, Kafka, Faulkner, Borges, Rulfo, Onetti (aún no llegaba Chéjov). Una noche escribió un cuento, el primero, «Victorio Ferri cuenta un cuento», incluido después en casi todas las antologías del cuento latinoamericano, y otros más, todos amargos y crueles, sobre personajes tocados por el diablo. El aire de la montaña y la escritura nocturna desprendieron las toxinas malignas. Durante varios años escribió cuentos y luego novelas, y en los últimos años, libros donde varios géneros se entreveran con pericia e imaginación. Todo eso es el fruto de aquellos cuentos escritos hace casi cincuenta años. Ahora, cuando Sergio Pitol se ha convertido en uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más imprescindibles de nuestro tiempo, ganador del Premio Juan Rulfo a la obra de una vida, nos complace presentar esta antología personal de sus mejores cuentos, encabezada por un extenso texto del gran escritor Enrique Vila-Matas. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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