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La pobre señorita Finch - format ePub
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.
Released on August 21, 2016.
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A través de la mirada de una genial narradora, madame Pratolungo, republicana ardiente que una vez vivió sólo para «el sagrado deber de derrocar tiranos» y ahora se ve en la necesidad de contratarse como profesora de piano y dama de compañía, La pobre señorita Finch (1871-1872) cuenta la historia de una joven ciega, «tan franca como intrépida» que en el trance de recuperar la vista, se encuentra en el centro de una red de mentiras piadosas y engaños malignos tejida por los dos hermanos gemelos que están enamorados de ella. Intrigas, conspiraciones y un tremendo «laberinto de mentiras» ponen a prueba la fidelidad y la entereza de una mujer que, acostumbrada a tener la vista «en la yema de sus dedos», y abocada ahora aun tortuoso sentimiento, acaba renegando del don que gracias a la medicina ha recobrado. En esta novela Wilkie Collins explora anticipadamente algunos de los hallazgos de la moderna psicología de la percepción, a la vez que construye una historia de amor y rivalidad sumamente anómala y compleja que mezcla inusitadamente su talento para el realismo doméstico con la irreal atmósfera de los cuentos de hadas. La novela es además una cumplida y muy collinsiana lección narrativa sobre la culpabilidad y la incoherencia de un punto de vista que busca, pese a todo, la exactitud.
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Title : La pobre señorita Finch
EAN : 9788822834843
Publisher : Wilkie Collins
Publication date
: 8/21/16
Format : ePub
File size : 1.95 mb
Protection : Filigrane numérique
Format : ePub
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