La Vida secreta de Walter Mitty

ISBN-10: 8496136752
ISBN-13: 9788496136755
Category: Fiction
Pages: 160
Language: Spanish
Published: 2004
Author: James Thurber

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James Thurber es uno de los mejores humoristas americanos. Cuando Harold Ross, recién incorporado al “The New Yorker”, en 1927, le comentó al entonces joven colaborador James Thurber "todo el mundo cree dominar el inglés, pero nadie lo hace", poco podía imaginarse que estaba ante un escritor que iba a convertirse, al lado de nombres como Dorothy Parker o Truman Capote, en uno de los autores de referencia de la mítica revista neoyorkina. Observador milimétrico y narrador incansable, los relatos de Thurber nos divierten, nos arrastran, nos abren un claro de cielo por el que entrevemos, más allá de la ironía, las frustraciones del hombre moderno. “La vida secreta de Walter Mitty”, el más célebre de sus relatos que da título a nuestra selección, sirvió incluso para bautizar como "síndrome de Walter Mitty" la tendencia compulsiva a fantasear con la que algunos hombres se escapan -a su modo heroicamente- de la rígida y anodina cotidianidad de lo que convenimos en llamar “una vida normal”.

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