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de Dónde Soy / Where I Was from
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ISBN10: 8439739753
ISBN13: 9788439739753
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9788439739753
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: Spanish
Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, contadas con una inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva. «Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas . --The New York Times
Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su California natal, el estado al que, siglos atrás, llegaron sus antepasados y al que ella ató gran parte de su vida y de su obra. «Este libro representa una exploración de mis propias confusiones acerca del lugar y la forma en que crecà [...] unos malentendidos y malinterpretaciones que forman parte de quien soy en tanta medida que todavÃa hoy solo les hago frente de refilón , decÃa Didion sobre un libro tan intelectualmente provocador como Ãntimo. Mezclando historia, crónica, memoria y crÃtica literaria, la autora explora los romances de California con la tierra y con el agua, sus deudas no reconocidas con los ferrocarriles, la industria aeroespacial y con el Gobierno central, asà como el contraste entre su culto al individualismo y su fetiche por las cárceles. Ya sea escribiendo sobre sus antepasados, sobre depredadores sexuales, polÃticos corruptos o escritores (sin excluirse a sà misma), Didion vuelve a demostrar aquà su incomparable capacidad de observación. De donde soy nos regala una mirada única al dibujar un mapa histórico y personal de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos, pero también al reflexionar sobre la escritura mientras revisa, a través del arte, la polÃtica, la economÃa y las vivencias de sus antepasados, el ideal de la «tierra prometida a lo largo de dos siglos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking In this arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.
Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir, and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir, and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
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