@ s Dear readers and visitors to my library:
On a spring day like today, could not miss my appointment with the usual walk through bookstores on Friday, as a product that has this beautiful little book. * THE OPEN BOAT
Stephen Crane
Translation Preface Estela Castellanos
Joseph Conrad Release Date: 24/01/2011
Editorial: Veintisieteletras
Madrid, Spain.
Collection: The imaginary eras
Paperback with flaps, 140 x 210 mm, 96 pages
ISBN: 978-84-92720-13-2
PVP: 9,50 €
-Synopsis-
On December 31, 1896 in the context of the English-American war for independence in Cuba, the tug Commodore sailed from the port of Jacksonville in the direction of Cienfuegos. They travel about thirty men with a load of five tons of weapons and ammunition for the Cuban rebels (rifles, machetes, cartridges and over a thousand kilos of dynamite).
Among the crew is the writer and journalist Stephen Crane. Is 31 and has agreed with Captain Murphy enlisted to hide their identity as a sailor, as he travels to the island to work as a reporter in what will be their first contact with the real war.
The tug makes its way through the fog, after traveling two miles from the San Juan River runs aground in the mud and damaged. Repair the hull, back to the crossing, but the next day following a leak in the boiler room, the boat stops. At dawn on January 2 leave the ship, which sank at dawn. Crane and three companions share a tiny boat, which will almost two days adrift off the coast of Florida, before they can attempt to reach shore by swimming.
this critical moment in his life, Crane transforms it into a masterful narrative that recreates the extreme case of men, one badly wounded, struggling to survive the indifference of the ocean. Essential background for the stories of Golding and García Márquez, the author uses a brush impressionist and subtle irony, and so gives us a profound reflection on the circumstances requiring the friendship among men, and the loneliness of the human being appears and unavoidable death horizon. ____________________________________________
"In the U.S., good writers are Henry James, Stephen Crane and Mark Twain."
Ernest Hemingway "The open boat outside doubt, his masterpiece. "
HG Wells' There is no better example than Stephen Crane of the fact that, on rare occasions, supernatural beings visiting the earth." Ford Madox Ford
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* Serve this little book as a introduction-to l @ s españoles/as- other readers 'jewel' of the same author, De HIGHLY RECOMMENDED reading, which I present below:
WOUNDS IN THE RAIN Stephen
Editorial
Crane King Lear
Two years before his death, Stephen Crane traveled as a U.S. newspaper correspondent in Cuba War which pitted Spain against the United States. Result of that experience wrote Wounds in the rain, which until now has never been translated or published in English. World famous for the novel The Red Badge of Courage, where he first told with precise and direct language the horrors of war violence, Crane takes on Wounds in the rain the same issue and explores the human condition, subject to the trenches the pressure of poverty, hunger and fear. The agility of his dialogues, his ability to create believable characters and close the reader, the power of literary imagery and irony offer an amazing view of the war in Cuba for their crudeness and modernity. This story, set landscapes such as the bay of Havana, Guantanamo or the hill of San Juan, describes the daily life of soldiers and journalists, unable to really understand why they face death. __________________________________________________
be good is the only way to be happy.
Being educated is the only way dfe be free. José Martí
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