Rudyard Kipling

Diez Relatos, Diez Miradas Rudyard Kipling

Publisher Marketing: Diez relatos, diez miradas reune una coleccion de relatos seleccionados y comentados por diez colaboradores de la revista digital Abrete libro!! que fueron presentados durante diez semanas entre abril y junio de 2011. El conjunto contiene historias de algunos de los mas grandes escritores de la literatura universal como Dickens, Kafka, Wilde, Maupassant, Clarin, Akutagawa, London, Machado de Assis o Kipling, en una seleccion de gran calidad en la que se encuentran representados los generos mas diversos, con el valor anadido de los comentarios aportados por otros tantos lectores -Julia Duce, M. Angeles Bachiller, Eduardo Marono, Javier Lara, Raquel Yepes, G. A. Vazquez, Lina Alvarez, Merche Diaz, Javier Sanz y Conchi Sarmiento- que, fieles a la filosofia del foro Abrete libro!!, comparten impresiones personales. Tambien se incluyen traducciones ineditas: La causa secreta, de Machado de Assis, realizada por G. A. Vazquez; y La belleza inutil, de Guy de Maupassant, por Raquel Yepes. Este libro esta dedicado a la memoria de Miguel Martinez-Lage, que supo entender aquello que estaba escrito mas alla de las palabras. A Miguel Martinez-Lage, el hombre que aspiraba a la invisibilidad (Julia Duce y M. Angeles Bachiller) ELLOS (Rudyard Kipling) Comentario de M. Angeles Bachiller EL FANTASMA DE CANTERVILLE (Oscar Wilde) Comentario de Javier Lara EL GUARDAVIAS (Charles Dickens) Comentario de Javier Sanz LA BELLEZA INUTIL (Guy de Maupassant) Comentario de Raquel Yepes EL GALLO DE SOCRATES (Leopoldo Alas Clarin) Comentario de Merche Diaz San Lazaro EN UN BOSQUECILLO (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) Comentario de Eduardo Marono POR UN BISTEC (Jack London) Comentario de G. A. Vazquez LA CAUSA SECRETA (Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis) Comentario de Julia Duce REGRESO AL HOGAR (Franz Kafka) Comentario de Lina Alvarez Juegos de letras (G. A. Vazquez) Siempre hay dias impares (Adela Gonzalez Diez) Contributor Bio:  Kipling, Rudyard Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. The name Rudyard was taken from a lake in Staffordshire, England. At the age of six, he and his younger sister were sent back to England where they lived with separate families that took in children for hire. He returned to India at age sixteen. Rudyard knew literary success at a young age and was able to travel. He married Carrie Balestier, an American, and moved to the United States. The Jungle Books were written in Vermont. He died January 18, 1936, in Middlesex, England during an operation. Contributor Bio:  Wilde, Oscar Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish-born poet, dramatist, and novelist. His works include collections of fairy stories; the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray; and many brilliantly witty plays, including what is often considered to be his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.