El Eco

El Eco
ISBN-10
8490651574
ISBN-13
9788490651575
Category
Fiction
Pages
227
Language
Spanish
Published
2016-07-27
Publisher
ALBA Editorial
Author
Henry James

Description

«Henry James nunca deja que se le escape una frase. Sus frases no son nunca aburridas, ni nunca demasiado brillantes.» Willa Cather «Bueno, intento darle a la gente lo que quiere. Es un trabajo duro.» «Lo que quiere la gente es justo lo que no se cuenta, y yo voy a contarlo.» Así define George Flack –representante de la prensa, «la gran institución de nuestro tiempo»– su profesión, y el papel que está determinado a desempeñar en ella. Frente a este elocuente cazador de lo que hoy llamaríamos noticias del corazón, se alza un cuadro internacional típicamente jamesiano: un rico viudo norteamericano alojado en un hotel de París con sus dos hijas, una de ellas prometida a un joven de una familia también norteamericana, pero ya tan afrancesada que «el sentido de la familia no era entre ellos una tiranía sino una religión». Disparidades de cultura y de modales, de sinceridad y de aspiraciones, tendrán que ser delicadamente vencidas para consolidar el compromiso entre los dos jóvenes... antes de que el voraz periodismo se inmiscuya dispuesto a airear «todo lo que es privado y espantoso». En El Eco (1888) Henry James anticipa el tráfico de intimidades que será característico de nuestra época con una novela sagaz y formalmente ligera que él mismo definió como un jeu d’esprit, pero donde el aire de comedia incuba disyuntivas espinosas y decisiones formidables.

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