Escritor, poeta, crítico y periodista, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) es universalmente reconocido como maestro del relato corto. Sobre todo se hizo famoso por sus cuentos fantásticos y de terror. Y también los tintes oscuros parecen teñir su biografía. Sus padres murieron cuando él era niño y fue criado por un matrimonio adinerado, Frances y John Allan, con quienes sin embargo rompió toda relación en su juventud. Tras un breve paso por el ejército, trabajó para algunos periódicos y fue uno de los primeros autores que intentó ganarse la vida con la escritura. Sus títulos más conocidos aparecieron muy pronto, a veces publicados por entregas: La caída de la casa Usher (1839), Los crímenes de Morgue (1841), El gato negro (1843), El corazón delator (1843), La carta robada (1844), El cuervo (1845)… A pesar del éxito y el reconocimiento actual, el autor apenas consiguió salir adelante y murió cuando contaba tan solo con cuarenta años de edad, sin que se haya aclarado nunca la causa exacta de su muerte.
In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.
Horacio Quiroga naît à Salto Oriental en Uruguay en 1878 et se suicide à Buenos Aires en 1937. Il s'installe à San Ignacio en pleine forêt tropicale où il s'essaiera à plusieurs exploitations, dont celle du coton. Fasciné par la forêt, toute son œuvre en porte l'empreinte, celle de la folie et de la violence. Considéré comme le maître de la nouvelle latino-américaine, il est l'égal de Maupassant pour le post-naturalisme et celui de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam pour les inventions cruelles. Le chant de la mélancolie de la mort envahit ses récits, d'une beauté exceptionnelle, où perce la vulnérabilité de l'existence.
Nikolay Gogol, the author of the first great Russian novel of the 19th century, Dead Souls, as well as two classic plays and some of the finest short stories written in any language, was a true literary oddity. His peculiar, unhappy life and his uniquely dark comic sensibility have been consistently misunderstood by posterity, with critics fiercely debating his nationality, his religious beliefs, and even his sexuality. What has never been in doubt, however, is his immense literary talent which, while essentially sui generis, provided a template for the absurdist, surreal streak in Russian literature that continues to bear fruit to this day. Along with Alexander Pushkin, he also established a literary pattern for the depiction of St. Petersburg as a city of ambiguity and even monstrosity, life in which proves untenable for many of his long-suffering protagonists. Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochyntsi, a Ukrainian Cossack village in what is now Ukraine's Poltava Oblast. His family were from the lower ranks of the gentry, his mother of Polish descent and his father a Ukrainian Cossack who wrote poetry and drama in Ukrainian. The family spoke both Ukrainian and Russian at home, and Gogol would later make a conscious choice to pursue a literary career in Russian rather than Ukrainian. He was educated at the Gymnasium of Higher Sciences in Nezhyn, a school founded as part of Alexander I's education reforms.
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) a passé son enfance en Normandie. Il s'est imposé comme l'un des écrivains majeurs du XIXe siècle, au même titre que ses amis Zola et Flaubert, son maître spirituel. Auteur de contes, de romans et de nouvelles, son écriture le situe dans le mouvement réaliste et naturaliste.
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Colección Mejores Cuentos
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Title : Los Mejores Cuentos del Mundo
EAN : 9786558944454
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
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