About the Book
La historia de las hermanas Bennet, conlleva un padre indolente, una madre histerica e irresponsable, la presencia elegante y varonil de Fitzwilliam Darcy, y un plantel de secundarios absolutamente deliciosos. No es de sorprender que causara de inmediato un tremendo revuelo en los cenaculos literarios de Londres, donde se valoro muy positivamente la novela. Elizabeth Bennet ya no es la damisela invalida, es una mujer inteligente, independiente, critica, maliciosa, divertida, sensata, aventurera y sincera. Se divierte con las tonterias a las que se ven abocados sus coetaneos por las imposiciones sociales, no le importa demasiado quedarse soltera, se burla del amor a primera vista, aprende de sus errores, es implacable con las cadenas sociales que atenazan a sus congeneres y asume desde el principio que ella es la duena de su vida. Hoy parece poca cosa, pero hace doscientos anos todas las muchachas de Inglaterra aprendieron, con Elizabeth Bennet, a decir que -no- y que se tomara como un -no-, a no sentirse arrastradas por una madre absurda, a no sentirse intimidadas por el poder, la clase o el dinero, a respetarse a si mismas y a presentarse ante el mundo sin nada de lo que avergonzarse. Description in English: The story of the Bennet sisters, features an indolent father, a hysterical and irresponsible mother, the elegant and manly presence of Fitzwilliam Darcy, and a staff of absolutely delicious secondary characters. It is not surprising that it immediately caused a tremendous stir in the literary circles of London, where the novel was assessed very positively. Elizabeth Bennet is not the typical null damsel, she's an intelligent, independent, critical, malicious, funny, sensible, adventurous and sincere woman. She has fun with the nonsense to which her peers are doomed with by social constraints, she does not care too remain single, makes fun of love at first sight, learns from her mistakes, she is relentless with social networks that plague her peers and she assumes from the start that she is the owner of her life. Today it seems little thing, but two hundred years ago all the girls in England learned to say 'no' thanks to Elizabeth Bennet, and to be taken as a no, not to feel swept away by an absurd mother, to not to feel intimidated by power, class or money, to respect themselves and to stand before the world with nothing to be ashamed of.
About the Author :
Jane Austen (Steventon, 1775 Winchester, 1817) es la primera gran mujer de la literatura inglesa. Sin embargo, su talento no siempre recibio una aceptacion unanime y, aunque alcanzo la fama en vida, tardo en conseguir la posicion canonica que ocupa hoy. Jane, sexta y ultima hija del reverendo de Steventon, vivio siempre con sus padres, hermanos y sobrinos en Hampshire y Bath. Educada en casa y con una vasta biblioteca a su disposicion, escribio relatos desde muy joven, que se recogen en suJuvenilia. Antes de los veintiun anos, empezo la elaboracion de Orgullo y prejuicio. Despues, le seguirian Mansfield Park, Sentido y sensibilidad, Emma, Persuasion, Los Watson y La abadia de Northanger, obras que reescribiria a lo largo de su vida. Poco antes de los cuarenta y un anos, empezo a escribir Sanditon, que dejaria inacabada al fallecer prematuramente. A pesar de empezar publicando sus novelas de forma anonima, murio con casi toda su obra publicada y cierto reconocimiento en Inglaterra. La ironia y el retrato de la sociedad de su tiempo hacen de su obra un punto de referencia ineludible en la historia de la literatura universal. / Jane Austeen (Steventon, 1775 Winchester, 1817) It is the first great woman of English literature. However, her talent is not always received unanimous acceptance and although she achieved fame in life, it took her time to get to the canonical position she has nowadays. Jane, the sixth and last child of Reverend Steventon, lived always with her parents, siblings and nephews in Hampshire and Bath. Homeschooled and with a vast library at her disposal, she wrote stories from an early age, which are collected in her Juvenilia. Before the age of twenty, she began writing Pride and Prejudice. It would then be followed by Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, The Watsons and Northanger Abbey, works she would rewrite throughout her life. Shortly before the age of forty-one, she began writing Sanditon, which she left unfinished when passing away prematurely. Despite start publishing her novels anonymously, she died with most of her work published and some recognition in England. The irony and the portrait of society of her time turn her work into an unavoidable point of reference in the history of world literature."
