Wakefield

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Overview

Jorge Luis Borges creía que en los cuentos de Nathaniel Hawthorne se inaugura el modo particular de ensoñación del cual surgirá el lenguaje oceánico de Herman Melville, las pesadillas de Edgar Allan Poe y las alucinaciones de William Faulkner. De hecho, cuando se les pidió a seis escritores argentinos que nombraran sus relatos predilectos, Borges escogió sin vacilar el "Wakefield" de Hawthorne, una "breve y ominosa parábola" que prefigura el mundo de Kafka, autor que a su vez "modifica y afina la lectura de 'Wakefield'".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789563651669
Publisher:	Hueders
Publication date:	07/11/1905
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	78
File size:	8 MB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an early American novelist and short story writer whose most renowned works include The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter. Ana Juan is an illustrator who has contributed to the New Yorker. She is the author of the children’s books Circus, Comenoches, and Snowhite.

Date of Birth:

July 4, 1804

Date of Death:

May 19, 1864

Place of Birth:

Salem, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Plymouth, New Hampshire

Education:

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1824