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Todos querríamos vivir en una novela de Muriel Spark, donde nada es lo que parece. Donde parece que todo es divertido e ingenioso, pero puede resultar duro y siniestro.

Esto es una novela. Una novela en la que su protagonista, Caroline Rose, escritora en potencia recién convertida al catolicismo, oye voces. En concreto, la voz y las teclas de la máquina de la persona que está escribiendo esta novela. Ella sabe que es un personaje de novela y, por suerte, la novela es fascinante, divertidísima y profunda. Aunque a veces intentará cambiarla. Sus compañeros de historia son alucinantes. Por ejemplo, Laurence, su pareja, tiene una abuela encantadora y aparentemente inofensiva. Pero descubre que ella y una banda de espías podrían estar traficando con diamantes escondidos dentro del pan.

Muriel Spark, que también se convirtió al catolicismo y sufrió una crisis nerviosa, escribió 22 novelas ultrapersonales y efervescentes. Una carrera que empezó, precisamente, con esta historia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

We would all like to live in a Muriel Spark novel, where nothing is what it seems to be; where everything seems fun and ingenious but also harsh and sinister.

The main character of this novel, Caroline Rose, is a recently converted to Catholicism writer-in-the-making, who hears voices. Specifically, the voice of the person writing this novel. She knows that she is a character in it and, luckily, the novel is fascinating, hilarious, and profound (although she will sometimes try to change the plot). Her companions are great too. Laurence, her partner, has a charming and seemingly harmless grandmother. But Caroline discovers that she might be dealing in diamonds, hiding them in bread loaves.

Muriel Spark, who also converted to Catholicism and suffered a nervous breakdown, wrote 22 effervescent, ultra-personal novels. Her career began with this story.
About the Author: Muriel Spark nació en Edimburgo en 1918, de padre judío y madre anglicana. Como muchas mujeres artistas, tardó en encontrar su voz en medio de una vida de dificultades. Se casó muy joven, y siguió a su marido hasta África donde trabajó de profesora. Poco tiempo después, en 1944, se embarcó en un transporte de tropas y volvió a Londres, dejando atrás Rodesia (la actual Zimbabue), a su marido y a su hijo. En Londres desempeñó diversos oficios; el más sorprendente, el de colaboradora en una oficina de contraespionaje del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores. Su labor allí era difundir noticias falsas para confundir a los alemanes. Con el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se consagra por completo a la escritura, atravesando duros periodos de los cuales encontramos eco en varias de sus novelas, que nos hablan de un tiempo de juventud en el cual la escritora pasó hambre.

En principio escribe poesía y crítica literaria. Después algunas piezas teatrales para la radio, la biografía de varias figuras literarias del siglo XIX como Emily Brontë o Mary Shelley, y más de una veintena de novelas. Muriel escribía a mano, sin apenas correcciones y por un solo lado, en cuadernos especiales de espiral importados de su Escocia natal. Tras la publicación y éxito de sus primeras novelas, se tras­lada a Estados Unidos para escapar del medio literario británico que sentía que la oprimía. En 1979 abandona Nueva York con destino a Italia. Allí vivirá hasta su muerte, en abril de 2006, en un pequeño pueblo de la Toscana, dejando una novela inacabada. Recibió premios y distinciones, entre ellos, el título de da­ma del Imperio Británico en 1993 y el Premio David Cohen de Literatura Británica, por el conjunto de su obra, en 1997, reconociendo así a la más brillante de las escritoras de posguerra de Gran Bretaña.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788419172426
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 435 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8419172421
  • Publisher Date: 22 Nov 2022
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 138 mm


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