Lluvia y otros cuentos

Lluvia y otros cuentos - William Somerset Maugham - Atalanta
Publisher name: 
Atalanta
Year of publication: 
2016
Pages: 
422
Binding: 
Soft cover

William Somerset Maugham's long literary career was filled with triumphs, in the early decades of the 20th century as a theatrical author in London, where he came to have up to four works on the poster at the same time - something not even Oscar Wilde ever achieved - and later as a novelist, with worldwide hits that brought several of his books to film. However, his true talent crystallizes in his tales, in which to an extensive knowledge of cosmopolitan worldly life come together his enormous and meticulous gifts of observation, dotted with acute malevolence. As Vicente Molina Foix warns in the prologue, the story was for Maugham the narration of, a single event, material or psychological, from which he eliminated everything that was not essential to his own elucidation and dramatic unity. Heir to Flaubert and, above all, Maupassant, he opposed the fashion of the time head-on, surren...read more

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Book: Lluvia y otros cuentos

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