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Ellen_Elizabeth: Another classic, historical fiction novel that explores a traditional culture through the story of one man and his family. Both were written in English and illustrate the author's perceived strengths and weaknesses of the subject culture in a way that is accessible to western readers.… (más)
Publicada en 1931, con esta obra maestra la autora de Viento del este, viento del oeste obtuvo el premio Pulitzer. Se trata de un abarcador y lúcido relato de tres generaciones en la China prerrevolucionaria. Un gran fresco del imperio chino, entre la agitación política en la corte y la miserable vida de los campesinos.
ES EL LIBRO QUE ATRAJO HACIA PEARL S. BUCK , LA ATENCIÓN DE LOS MEJORES CRÍTICOS, CONSIDERÁNDOLA COMO SU OBRA MAESTRA. ELLA VIVE ENTRE LOS CHINOS SIN PERDER SUS VIRTUDES DE "BLANCA", HACE SUYA LA VOLUNTAD DE EXISTIR DEL HOMBRE AMARILLO. Y DOS RAZAS SE ESTRECHAN LA MANO EN SU OBRA DESTINADA A SUBRAYAR, NO LOS DEFECTOS QUE RESIDEN EN LA SUPERFICIE, SINO LAS SEMEJANZAS QUE ESTÁN EN LO HONDO DE AMBOS GRUPOS HUMANOS. DESCRIBE AL PUEBLO CHINO, PERO NO COMO LO HAN HECHO OTROS, EN SUS ASPECTOS EXTERIORES, SINO LA PRESENTACIÓN DE LA HUMANIDAD PLENA DE DIGNIDAD QUE ASPIRA AL TRÁNSITO POR MEJORES CAMINOS. ALGUIEN HA DICHO, Y CON SOBRADA RAZÓN , QUE SI PEARL S. BUCK, NO ESCRIBIERA MAS, ESTA OBRA BASTARÍA PARA CONSIDERARLA ENTRE LOS MAS GRANDES ESCRITORES DE NUESTRO TIEMPO.
WAN-LU SE CASA CON O-LAN, ESCLAVA DE CASA GRANDE, QUE LE DA VARIOS HIJOS. LLEGA UN AÑO DE HAMBRE Y LA FAMILIA EMIGRA, PERO WAN-LU SE NIEGA A VENDER SU PEQUEÑO TROZO DE TIERRA. AL REGRESO DE SU EMIGRACIÓN, WAN-LU VA COMPRANDO POCO A POCO MAS TIERRA Y LLEGA A ENRIQUECERSE. ( )
la historia de wang, un esforzado y honrado campesino, de su mujer y de su familia a lo largo de 3 generaciones sirve a la autora para mostrarnos un vívido fresco de los sufrimientos y las alegreías del campesinado en la China prerevolicionaria del último Emperador. ( )
Merecedora del premio Pulitzer, "La buena tierra" (1931), segunda novela de la premio Nobel Pearl S. Buck, confirmó el talento de su autora y la colocó entre los maestros de la narrativa del siglo XX. La historia de Wang-Lung, un esforzado y honrado campesino, de su mujer, O-Lang, y de su familia a lo largo de tres generaciones sirve a la autora para mostrarnos un vívido fresco de los sufrimientos y las alegrías del campesinado en la China prerrevolucionaria del último emperador: sus miedos, sus pasiones, sus ambiciones y recompensas. El ciclo completo de la vida.
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...This was what Vinteuil had done for the little phrase. Swann felt that the composer had been content (with the instruments at his disposal) to draw aside its veil, to make it visible, following and respecting its outlines with a hand so loving, so prudent, so delicate and so sure, that the sound altered at every moment, blunting itself to indicate a shadow, springing back into life when it must follow the curve of some more bold projection. And one proof that Swann was not mistaken when believed in the real existence of this phrase was that anyone with an ear at all delicate for music would have at once detected the imposture had Vinteuil, endowed with less power to see and to render its forms, sought to dissemble (by adding a line, here and there, of his own invention) the dimness of his vision or the feebleness of his hand. — Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust
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It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
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He had no articulate thought of anything; there was only this perfect sympathy of movement, of turning this earth of theirs over and over to the sun, this earth which formed their home and fed their bodies and made their gods. The earth lay rich and dark, and fell apart lightly under the points of their hoes, Sometimes they turned up a bit of brick, a splinter of wood. It was nothing. Sometimes, in some age, bodies of men and women had been buried there, houses had stood there, had fallen, and gone back into the earth. So would also their house, sometime, return into the earth, their bodies also. Each had his turn at this earth. They worked on, moving together — together — producing the fruit of this earth — speechless in their movement together.
…he said nothing still, she looked at him piteously and sadly out of her strange dumb eyes that were like a beast’s eyes that cannot speak, and then she went away, creeping and feeling for the door because of her tears that blinded her.
Wang Lung watched her as she went and he was glad to be alone, but still he was ashamed and he was still angry that he was ashamed, and he said to himself, and he muttered the words aloud and restlessly, as though he quarreled with someone, “Well, and other men are so and I have been good enough to her, and there are men worse than I.” And he said at last that O-lan must bear it.
My house and my land it is, and if it were not for the land we should all starve as the others did, and you could not walk about in your dainty robes idle as a scholar. It is the good land that has made you something better than a farmer’s lad.
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But over the old man's head they looked at each other and smiled.
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