Confesiones de Un Joven Novelista / Confessions of a Young Novelist
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.95
ISBN13: 9788426407290
Publisher: Lumen
Published: Oct 10 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: Spanish
«Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabidurÃa y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y certera lucidez . -Irene Vallejo «Estas conferencias se titulan Confesiones de un joven novelista, y cabrÃa preguntarse por qué, teniendo en cuenta que ya he cumplido más de setenta años. Pero resulta que publiqué mi primera novela, El nombre de la rosa, en 1980, de modo que empecé mi carrera como novelista hace cosa de treinta años. Me considero, por lo tanto, un novelista muy joven y ciertamente prometedor . Asà comienza este libro en el que el gran intelectual cuenta cómo se acercó a la ficción siendo ya un ensayista de prestigio, cómo prepara cada una de sus novelas antes de ponerse a escribir, cómo crea sus personajes y la realidad que los rodea. También nos habla de la ambigüedad que mantiene el escritor para que sus lectores se sientan libres de seguir su propio camino a la hora de interpretar un texto, asà como de su capacidad para generar emociones en ellos. Por qué en general no lloramos cuando alguien nos cuenta que su pareja lo ha abandonado y, en cambio, muchos nos emocionamos al leer el episodio de la muerte de Anna Karénina? Un volumen «cautivador, brillante y audaz (The Guardian) en el que Eco propone respuestas ingeniosas, llenas de ironÃa y erudición, a las preguntas que él mismo plantea, y convierte una anécdota en una lección de vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these confessions, the author, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction.
He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction―playfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier. Good nonfiction, he believes, is crafted like a whodunnit, and a skilled novelist builds precisely detailed worlds through observation and research. Taking us on a tour of his own creative method, Eco recalls how he designed his fictional realms. He began with specific images, made choices of period, location, and voice, composed stories that would appeal to both sophisticated and popular readers. The blending of the real and the fictive extends to the inhabitants of such invented worlds. Why are we moved to tears by a character's plight? In what sense do Anna Karenina, Gregor Samsa, and Leopold Bloom exist? A medievalist, philosopher, and scholar of modern literature, Eco astonishes above all when he considers the pleasures of enumeration. He shows that the humble list, the potentially endless series, enables us to glimpse the infinite and approach the ineffable. This young novelist is a master who has wise things to impart about the art of fiction and the power of words.
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