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Cargando... Under a glass bell and other stories (edición 1995)por Anaïs Nin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Under A Glass bell is a small collection of short stories. And when I say short, I do mean short. The briefness of the stories doesn't allow for much character development. But Nin more than makes up for this with her exquisitely lavish and detailed descriptions of the settings the stories take place in. These descriptions immediately set a mood and takes the reader right into the world of the story. ( ) I’ve always loved Anais Nin’s writing. Although one may not understand what she’s going on about it’s assuredly sensual in every turn of phrase. Every dew drop, every sigh laden with meaning, the smell of a river, and the longing for a lover’s embrace is so atmospheric you desire to live more fully every moment. One wants to exclaim, “I’ll have what she’s having!” There are some lovely short stories in this book, with some important messages for Humanity. I particularly enjoyed reading 'Houseboat', 'Ragtime' and 'Hejda'. Whereas Anais Nin is a lovely descriptive writer - overly so for my taste - I do sometimes struggle with metaphors such as "The bushes were soft hairy elbows touching mine". A collection of short stories written and originally between 1938 and 1944. Very poetic and hence not something I'm good at appreciating. The story with the most dialogue and action, "The Mouse," ends with a character near death, but clearly who this woman is and how she is perceived and treated by others is more important than whether she lives or dies, since we don't find out what happens. The engravings are abstract and interesting. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Although "Under a Glass Bell" is now considered one of Anais Nin's finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own press and brought out the first edition, illustrated with striking black-and-white engravings by her husband, Hugh Guiler. Shortly thereafter, it caught the attention of literary critic Edmund Wilson, who reviewed the collection in the "New Yorker." The first printing sold out in three weeks. This new Swallow Press edition includes an introduction by noted modernist scholar Elizabeth Podnieks, as well as editor Gunther Stuhlmann's erudite but controversial foreword to the 1995 edition. Together, they place the collection in its historical context and sort out the individuals and events recorded in the diary that served as its inspiration. The new Swallow Press edition also restores the thirteen stories to the order Nin specified for the first commercial edition in 1948. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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