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Cargando... Los Hijos de Hurín (2007)por J. R. R. Tolkien
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0994 Esta obra, como muchas otras del autor, tiene la virtud de convertir la prosa en verso. Se trata en realidad de prosa heroica, de auténticas epoyeyas. Es el mito llevado al extremo. Historias cuyo desenlaces hacen al lector vibrar con los protagonistas. Podría ser una continuación del Sismarillion, o una crónica perdida del mundo que creó Tolkien, para deleite y disfrute de sus apasionados lectores. Es la lucha del bien contra el mal, la búsqueda de la verdad, del amor. Es el sentido de la vida. Historia trágica de unos protagonistas incapaces de escapar a su destino, transcurrida durante los Días Antiguos de la Tierra Media, cuando el enemigo de los pueblos libres era Morgoth. El héroe que aquí se dibuja, Húrin, es imperfecto, testarudo, a veces cercano al delito, pero siempre con un fondo noble que emerge cuando las circunstancias lo requieren. La narrativa de la obra es irregular, y literariamente está lejos de El Señor de Los Anillos. Normal, si se tiene en cuenta que se basa en retazos y borradores del autor, hilados por su hijo Christopher para la ocasión. No obstante la historia atrapa desde el comienzo hasta el fin, y hay que reconocerle su dimensión épica.
... So there's something very pagan about Tolkien's world, and it gets more pagan as we go further back. The Children of Húrin is practically Wagnerian. It has a lone, brooding hero, a supremely malicious dragon, a near-magical helmet, a long-standing curse, a dwarf of ambiguous moral character called Mîm and - the clincher, this - incest. Which is here a disaster and not, as in Wagner, a two-fingers-to-fate passion. Readers will already have come across the story in its essence in The Silmarillion and, substantially, in Unfinished Tales, which came out in 1980. One suspects that those who bought the latter book will not feel too cheated when they buy and read The Children of Húrin. ... Christopher Tolkien has brought together his father's text as well, I think, as he can. In an afterword, he attests to the difficulty his father had in imposing "a firm narrative structure" on the story, and indeed it does give the impression of simply being one damned thing after another, with the hero, Túrin, stomping around the forests in a continuous sulk at his fate, much of which, it seems, he has brought upon himself. As to whether the story brings out the feeling of "deep time" which Tolkien considered one of the duties of his brand of imaginative literature, I cannot really tell, for I do not take this kind of thing as seriously as I did when I was a boy and feel that perhaps the onus for the creation of such a sense of wonder is being placed too much on the reader. Actually, the First Age here seems a pretty miserable place to be; Orcs everywhere, people being hunted into outlawhood or beggary, and with no relief, light or otherwise, from a grumpy, pipe-smoking wizard. But it does have a strange atmosphere all of its own. Maybe it does work. Inspired by the Norse tale of Sigurd and Fafnir, Tolkien first wrote a story about a dragon in 1899, at the age of 7. At school he discovered the Kalevala, a Finnish epic poem, and by 1914 was trying to turn the tale of Kullervo into “a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris’s romances”. By 1919 he had combined these elements in what became the tale of Túrin Turambar. The book is beautiful, but other than the atmospheric illustrations by Alan Lee, and a discussion of the editorial process, much of what lies between the covers was actually published in either The Silmarillion (1977) or Unfinished Tales (1980). Yet this new, whole version serves a valuable purpose. In The Children of Húrin we could at last have the successor to The Lord of the Rings that was so earnestly and hopelessly sought by Tolkien’s publishers in the late 1950s. Contenido enEs una versión ampliada deInspiradoTiene como estudio aPremiosDistinciones
El origen de la Tierra Media Situada en la Primera Edad, cuando elfos, hombres y enanos llevaban pocos siglos sobre la tierra. La última novela de Tolkien narra una historia trágica de amores imposibles, pasiones y guerras sin cuartel entre la Luz y la Oscuridad, mientras hombres, elfos, enanos, orcos y dragones luchaban por el dominio de la Tierra Media. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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