Name: El Invierno de mi Desazón (in Spanish)
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Author: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9788417281762

portada El Invierno de mi Desazón (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Steinbeck

Publisher

Nórdica Libros

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

424

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788417281762

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El Invierno de mi Desazón (in Spanish)"

John Steinbeck escribió El invierno de mi desazón en 1961, un año antes de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura, y es su última novela. El propio Steinbeck dijo de esta obra que «trata sobre una gran parte de Norteamérica tal como es hoy en día», prestando especial atención a la confrontación entre el dinero producto del trabajo y el heredado. Steinbeck estudia en esta obra qué es lo que hace que un hombre, Ethan Allen Hawley, empleado y antiguo propietario de una tienda de comestibles, cambie de valores, en apariencia de la noche a la mañana. Ese cambio tendrá lugar, precisamente, el 4 de julio, día de la fiesta nacional estadounidense. Podemos leer esta novela como una lúcida parábola sobre los valores de Estados Unidos, y de cómo el dinero puede repeler cualquier forma de honestidad. Un libro grandioso cuyo mensaje sigue plenamente vigente cincuenta años después de la muerte de su autor.

John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck (1902- 1968) was born in Salinas, California. He studied at Stanford University and during his youth worked as a laborer and fruit picker. His first success was Tortilla Flat (1935), a story between picaresque and romantic about Mexican immigrants settled around Monterey (California). In 1936, he wrote a series of seven reports for The San Francisco News, which he later published as The Harvest Gypsies. In 1939, his most famous work appeared: The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer Prize 1940), which tells the sad story of a family from the impoverished state of Oklahoma that migrates to California during the economic depression of the thirties; this work, received as a moving document of social protest, was adapted into a film by John Ford in 1940. Among his extensive literary work are also the novels Of Mice and Men (1936), The Pearl (1947) and East of Eden (1962), and screenplays for movies, such as the one he wrote for Viva Zapata! by Elia Kazan. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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