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Cargando... Magic for Beginners (edición 2005)por Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (Ilustrador)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Fabulous in every meaning of the word. I'm no fan of speculative fiction but writers like Link and Lethem use the genre in their writing wonderfully. ( ) ''There once was a man whose wife was dead. She was dead when he fell in love with her, and she was dead for the twelve years they lived together, during which time she bore him three children, all of them dead as well, and at the time of which I am speaking, the time during which her husband began to suspect that she was having an affair, she was still dead.'' ''You should never burn down a house. You should never set a cat on fire. You should never watch and do nothing while a house is burning. You should never listen to a cat who says to do any of these things. You should listen to your mother when she tells you to come away from watching, to go to bed, to go to sleep. You should listen to your mother's revenge. You should never poison a witch.'' And these are the only extracts that were worth highlighting. Apart from Stone Rabbits, Catskin, and The Great Divorce - stories of sadness, tragedy, bitterness and love that deserved to be part of a much better collection - the rest of the stories are an amalgam of surrealism and absurdism that serve no other purpose but to satisfy the ego of the writer. Confusion veering into paranoia just for the sake of it. There are much better short story collections that belong to the Magical Realism genre. This one was a frightful disappointment. I think the genre isn't really my thing, but to her immense credit I enjoyed Link's writing and wonderfully skewed alternative reality setups. Her world- and character-building are strong, and though the stories aren't super plotty they move along in interesting, unexpected ways that kept me engaged and consistently surprised. I also loved the incidental illustrations... more books should do that.
Her best stories (and there are at least three small masterpieces here) are breathtaking tightrope acts—at once faintly familiar and pungently defamiliarized, thick with incongruous detail yet clouded in a redolent ambiguity. They are not merely dreamlike—subject to an intricate internal logic, they have a pulsing, worrying intensity, a larger meaning that lies just on the outer limits of apprehension, like dreams transcribed on the verge of consciousness. ContieneCatskin por Kelly Link PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
Una joven autora inédita en España cuyos originales relatos mezclan realidad y fantasía y entusiasmarán tanto al lector más joven ávido de libros diferentes como al más literario y exigente. Abre este libro y descubre un mundo real convertido en hermosamente irreal: amor, zombis, extraterrestres y hermanos que salen disparados de un cañón. Kelly Link coloca una lente fantástica sobre todo aquello que nos conmueve y nos convierte en quienes somos. En Magia para lectores encontrarás infinidad de cosas: un bolso con un pueblo dentro, bibliotecarios que se baten en duelo, sofás probablemente carnívoros, un chico llamado Cebolla... Y es que todos estos cuentos esconden un tesoro. Son los cuentos que No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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