En este volumen se re nen todos los relatos de Flannery O'Connor, tanto los que public en vida como los que dej in ditos, muchos de los cuales nunca se hab an traducido al castellano.

El genio l cido, doloroso y atormentado de Flannery O'Connor alcanza sus m s altas cimas en el cuento, g nero que cultiv ininterrumpidamente desde sus a os de estudiante hasta su prematura y tr gica muerte.

Las historias de este libro hiriente y sobrecogedor tienen como escenario los pueblos y las tierras del sur de Estados Unidos, especialmente su Georgia natal, un mundo decr pito y en ruinas cuyo secular abandono y pobreza ancestral aparecen marcados por la violencia y el odio. Pero, m s all de la sordidez, los conflictos raciales, el asfixiante peso de la religi n y la frustrada lucha por la libertad, hay siempre en los cuentos de Flannery O'Connor una extra a belleza, una ntima exposici n moral de la condici n humana que trasciende la an cdota.

Comparada a menudo con William Faulkner o Carson McCullers, con quienes forj lo que se ha llamado el «g tico sure o , Flannery O'Connor es una de las narradoras imprescindibles de la literatura norteamericana del siglo XX.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

This volume is a compilation of all of Flannery O'Connor's stories, both those published during her lifetime and others found after her death - many of them translated into Spanish here for the first time.

Flannery O'Connor's unflinching and tormented prose found its highest expression in the short story, a genre she pursued consistently from her student years until her premature and tragic death.

The breathtaking and disturbing titles presented here are set in the small-town and rural US South, especially the author's home state of Georgia. It is a world in shambles, mired in poverty, where hatred and violence have taken firm hold. Yet, amid the sordidness, racial tensions, suffocating religiosity and frustrated struggle for freedom, O'Connor discovers a strange beauty. Her writing is an intimate portrayal of the human condition that transcends mere storytelling.

Often compared to William Faulkner or Carson McCullers, fellow icons of the so-called "Southern Gothic" style, Flannery O'Connor ranks as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American literature.

Cuentos Completos (O'Connor) / The Complete Stories - häftad, Spanska, 2023