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Lo Que Quiero Decir / Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Lo Que Quiero Decir / Let Me Tell You What I Mean


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Una colección atemporal de algunos de los primeros artículos y crónicas de la icónica escritora y periodista norteamericana.

«Una excelente introducción a la aguda mirada de Didion sobre la vida estadounidense.»
Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post

«Escribo estrictamente para averiguar qué estoy pensando, qué estoy mirando, qué veo y qué significa.»

Lo que quiero decir recopila doce artículos y crónicas inéditas en español de Didion bajo el eje vertebrador de lo que el Nuevo Periodismo llamó el narrador testigo. Redactados en la primera parte de su carrera como periodista, estos concisos e incisivos textos muestran los intereses primarios que la convirtieron en escritora y abarcan un amplio espectro de sus temas habituales, desde el acto de escribir a la crónica social o política. Por sus páginas desfilan personajes como Orwell, Hemingway, Mapplethorpe, Nancy Reagan, anónimos de Ludópatas Anónimos o el propio director de admisiones de la Universidad de Standford, donde fue rechazada.

Didion es uno de los iconos culturales de Estados Unidos y una de las figuras clave del periodismo de las últimas cinco décadas, y en sus crónicas, como apunta el prólogo de Elvira Navarro, «refleja, como pocos autores, un mundo, el estadounidense, que, para bien y para mal, ha extendido sus tentáculos por todo el orbe, hasta el punto de que hoy resulta imposible comprender la cultura y los acontecimientos políticos y económicos más recientes de los países occidentales (España entre ellos) sin mirar a Estados Unidos. Leerla es también, por consiguiente, adentrarnos en lo que nos ha sucedido a todos en las últimas décadas».

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.

These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time (The New York Times Book Review).

Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers (the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In Why I Write, Didion ponders the act of writing: I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men, these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.
About the Author: Joan Didion (Sacramento, 1934) es novelista y periodista. Graduada por la Universidad de Berkeley en California, le fue concedido el doctorado honoris causa en letras por las universidades de Harvard y Yale.

Comenzó trabajando en la revista Vogue, donde fue editora y crítica de cine, y ha sido colaboradora habitual de The New York Review of Books. Junto a su marido, John Gregory Dunne, escribió también guiones cinematográficos, entre los que se encuentra el basado en Según venga el juego, llevada al cine por Frank Perry y protagonizada por un joven Anthony Perkins.

Es autora de las novelas Río revuelto, Según venga el juego, Book of Common Prayer, Democracy y The Last Thing He Wanted. También ha escrito varios libros de autoficción, como Where I Was From, Noches azules y la aclamada El año del pensamiento mágico, que fue ganadora del National Book Award y finalista del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Critics Circle Award. También ha publicado diversos libros de ensayo sobre la cultura y la política norteamericanas, una selección de los cuales se incluyen en Los que sueñan el sueño dorado, así como sus anotaciones inéditas Sur y Oeste. La mayor parte de su obra en lengua española ha sido publicada en Literatura Random House.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788439739395
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • ISBN-10: 8439739397
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2022


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