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«Esta sobresaliente colección de relatos muestra el poder y el alcance de uno de los mejores escritores del siglo pasado. Historias de amor y miseria, que incluyen obras maestras como "El nadador" o "Adiós, hermano" y que fechan de su salida del ejército al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.» —The Guardian Los cuentos de John Cheever son el gran testimonio literario de la clase media estadounidense de los años cincuenta y sesenta. Conocido como «el Chéjov norteamericano», fue el gran cronista de ese territorio casi mitológico de las zonas residenciales a las afueras de las grandes ciudades, con sus fiestas de cóctel y piscina, sus despertares de periódico en la puerta, sombrero, maletín y beso a los niños, tardes con cuartetos de Benny Goodman en la radio y noches enteras anhelando una vida distinta. Cheever convirtió con maestría ese espejismo de éxito y felicidad en el escenario de glorias y penas de familias que, entre la frustración, el deseo y el tedio, conforman un retrato incomparable del alma humana que transciende cualquier época o país. Esta edición incluye un epílogo de Rodrigo Fresán y mantiene la selección del propio Cheever, merecedora tras su publicación en 1978 del Premio Pulitzer y el National Book Critics Circle. Recorriendo una trayectoria de casi tres décadas, contiene relatos tan emblemáticos como «El nadador», retrato onírico de un hombre a la deriva, o «El marido rural», novela en miniatura según Nabokov cuyo protagonista sobrevive a un accidente de avión y vuelve a casa ante la indiferencia total de su familia. Cheever, que luchó toda su vida contra la adicción al alcohol y contra una bisexualidad reprimida, demostró conocer a la perfección los estragos que causan las pasiones más ocultas cuando explotan sin apenas ruido. En plena oscuridad supo encontrar destellos en las existencias más apagadas, débiles rayos de luz que en sus manos acababan alumbrando una vida entera. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION John Cheever’s short stories are the great literary testimony of the American middle class of the nineteen fifties and sixties. Known as “the American Chekov,” he was the grand chronicler of this almost mythological territory of the residential landscape on the outskirts of big cities, with their cocktail and pool parties, their mornings of newspapers by the door, hats, briefcases, and kissing the kids goodbye, afternoons with Benny Goodman on the radio, and entire evenings yearning for a different life. Cheever was a master in turning this mirage of success and happiness into the stage of family joy and grief that, in the midst of frustration, desire, and boredom, make up an incomparable portrait of the human soul that transcends any time or nation. This edition includes Rodrigo Fresán’s epilogue, and keeps Cheever’s own selection, worthy of a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 and the National Book Critics Circle. Spanning almost three decades, it includes emblematic tales, such as “The Narrator,” the oneiric portrait of a lost man, or “The Rural Husband,” miniature novel according to Nabokov, the protagonist of which survives a plane crash and returns home to the absolute indifference of his family. Cheever, who struggled his entire life with alcoholism and a repressed bisexuality, proved to know perfectly how the most intimate passions wreak havoc when they burst with little noise. In the dark he knew how to find glimmers of light in the most quenched existence, weak luminous streaks that in his hand brightened a life.

About the Author :
John Cheever (Quincy, Massachussets, 1912 - Nueva York, 1982) es uno de los escritores norteamericanos más destacados del siglo XX. Con apenas veinte años empezó a escribir relatos en The New Yorker con un éxito inmediato que le llevó a ser conocido como «el Chejov de los suburbios» por la maestría con la que retrató el espejismo del sueño americano, buscando siempre algo de luz entre el caos y el desencanto y la melancolía. Autor también de una sólida obra novelística, destacan La crónica de los Wapshot (National Book Award, 1958), El escándalo de los Wapshot (publicados por DeBolsillo en el ómnibus Los Wapshot), Bullet Park, Falconer y ¡Oh, esto parece el paraíso!. Sus Dietarios y sus Cartas forman parte también de una obra monumental que le mereció el Premio Pulitzer en 1979 y la Medalla Nacional de Literatura en 1982, poco después de su muerte.

Review :
Críticas: «John Cheever es un realista con magia, y su voz, en sus luminosos relatos, es tan rica y distintiva como las principales voces de la literatura estadounidense de posguerra.» Philip Roth «A menudo se habla de Cheever como un escritor de los barrios residenciales, pero muchos han escrito sobre ello. Solo él fue capaz de convertirlos en un arquetipo.» John Updike «Supongo que querrán caracterizar sus relatos como chejovianos, o decir que Cheever es menos sombrío que Carver, más amplio, irónico y alegre que Hemingway. Pero al final siempre será enteramente él mismo, calculando y equilibrando cada frase hasta decir lo correcto y, todavía más a menudo, elevándose hasta situar el tren de lo diario sobre las vías de lo político.» Hanif Kureishi


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788466346603
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
  • Publisher Imprint: Debolsillo
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 880
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 134 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8466346600
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 369 gr


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