Name: Relatos (in Spanish)
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Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9788437637839

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Publisher

Catedra

Collection

Letras Universales

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

424

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.00 x 11.00

ISBN13

9788437637839

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Relatos (in Spanish)"

Testigo de los muchos cambios socioeconómicos y políticos que continuaban erosionando los principios republicanos, y de los innumerables intentos por recomponer el imaginario colectivo democrático norteamericano a través de nuevas formas de intervención públicas, Whitman, fervoroso creyente en las posibilidades que encerraba la prensa como herramienta ideológica al servicio de la mejora social, elabora en estas narraciones una voz profundamente enraizada en las retóricas populares y sensacionalistas de preguerra, con el fin de restañar las heridas abiertas en la utópica comunidad republicana imaginada por los padres fundadores. La producción de relatos de Walt Whitman se concentra entre agosto de 1841 y junio de 1848, y se compone de veinticuatro textos, que aparecieron en muchas ocasiones con pseudónimo o sin firmar. Él mismo haría una selección que aparecería en " Specimen Days & Collect " (1882). Su ficción criticará los males derivados de la acumulación de capital, del poder y la corrupción empresariales, de la opresión de los trabajadores y de las mujeres, y del fanatismo religioso, entre otros temas. En realidad, quien surge tras la lectura de estos relatos no es otro que el mismo Whitman que aparecerá en esencia en su poesía: el hombre compasivo, un individuo capaz de situarse en la posición del otro.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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