Cuentos completos Format: Trade Paper
Language: Spanish
Published by Penguin Random House, 2018
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- Title
- Cuentos completos Format: Trade Paper
- Author
- ALDECOA, IGNACIO
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8420432431
- ISBN 13
- 9788420432434
«Ignacio era un narrador de raza. Para él, contar historias era una manera de vivir. Contarlas del modo más eficaz y con el lenguaje más bello y expresivo, la meta a la que le conducían su talento, su esfuerzo y su voluntad apasionada de perfección.
Ignacio admiraba profundamente a Stevenson. Y solía contar cómo los indígenas de la isla de Samoa habían grabado un hermoso epitafio en la tumba del escritor: -Aquí yace Tusitala, el narrador de historias.. Luego, Ignacio se quedaba pensativo un instante y añadía: -Así es como me gustaría que me recordaran: Ignacio Aldecoa, el narrador de historias-.
Y sonreía. Porque Ignacio tenía una forma risueña de decir las cosas en las que creía seriamente. Detestaba la solemnidad, rechazaba la pedantería y le gustaba pasar levemente sobre los asuntos graves: la brevedad de la existencia, la inaceptable injusticia de nacer para morir, la muerte misma.» —Josefina R. Aldecoa
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The complete stories of Ignacio Aldecoa, collected in a single volume.
“Ignacio was a first-class narrator. For him, telling stories was a way of life. His talent, dedication and quest for perfection drove his efforts to tell them effectively, using the most beautiful and expressive language possible.
Ignacio was a fervent admirer of Stevenson. He liked to tell listeners about the epitaph the indigenous inhabitants of Samoa engraved on the author’s headstone: ‘Here lies Tusitala, teller of stories.’ Afterward, Ignacio would turn pensive and add: - That’s how I’d like to be remembered: Ignacio Aldecoa, teller of stories.
And he’d smile. Because Ignacio had a way of being whimsical about things he took seriously. He hated self-importance and pedantry and liked to speak lightly about somber subjects: the brevity of existence, the implacable unfairness of being born just to die, and death itself.” -Josefina R. Aldecoa
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About the Author
Su novelística, reducida a cuatro títulos, es parte de un vasto proyecto consistente en tres trilogías que debían de abordar, respectivamente, el trabajo del mar, el trabajo de las minas y el mundo de los guardias civiles, los gitanos y los toreros. De todo ello la muerte sólo le permitió escribir una parte de la primera, Gran sol, de 1957, que trata de la pesca de altura, y dos de la última: El fulgor y la sangre, de 1954, sobre la vida cotidiana de una pequeña guarnición de la guardia civil, y Con el viento solano, de 1956, en torno al mundo de los gitanos. Independiente de estas series es la novela titulada Parte de una historia (1967). A pesar de la crudeza humana de su escritura, de su intensa carga testimonial, Ignacio Aldecoa rehúye el mensaje explícitamente político (en ello se aparta de las propuestas del realismo crítico) y tiende a una ajustada técnica objetivista.
Sus cuentos son fragmentos de vida, historias insignificantes pero dotadas de un gran poder evocador; por su variada temática (los oficios, la clase media, los bajos fondos, las vidas extrañas, el éxodo rural a la ciudad, etc.) configuran un amplio cuadro de comedia humana de nuestra posguerra. Recopilados en 1973 (Cuentos completos), aparecieron en las colecciones Vísperas del silencio (1955), El corazón y otros puntos amargos (1959), Caballo de pica, de 1956, Arqueología (1961), Los pájaros de Baden Baden (1965) y Santa Olaja de acero (1968).
Aldecoa convirtió en materia novelable su profunda experiencia de los hombres y la difícil tesitura por la que atraviesa España en años particularmente crueles: los posteriores a la Guerra Civil. Guiado siempre por un creciente deseo de objetividad y comprensión de las formas de vida del país y de sus gentes, en especial las más sencillas y sometidas a la injusticia, el novelista le da al conjunto de su obra un sello personal inconfundible: rico, laborioso, con un riguroso sentido de la construcción por lo que hace a las situaciones y una técnica realista de la que sobresale la nota enérgica, teñida invariablemente de poesía y verdad.
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