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9788491052449

La roja insignia del valor / The Red Badge of Courage

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    9788491052449

  • ISBN10:

    8491052445

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2017-01-31
  • Publisher: Penguin Clásicos
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Summary

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«Había estado buscando una muerte grandiosa y descubrió que, después de todo, sólo existía un tipo de muerte. Era un hombre.»

Con tan solo veinticuatro años, Stephen Crane cambió el curso de la literatura bélica. Ambientada durante la Guerra Civil americana, esta es la historia de un joven que se alista voluntario para defender unos ideales poco a poco destruidos por el fragor de los cañonazos. La guerra deja de ser así un escenario romántico para convertirse en un infierno de fango, desesperación y miedo. Con talento inigualable, Crane conjuga la descripción expresionista de la batalla con las dudas del individuo hacia su entereza.

Obra capital de la literatura estadounidense, muchos son los estudios dedicados a recalcar la importancia de La roja insignia del valor. Entre ellos se cuenta el firmado por el catedrático honorífico de la Universidad de Nuevo México Gary Scharnhorst, que precede la magnífica traducción de Juan Aparicio Belmonte y María Ermitas Barrasa.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900).

Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer. Although Crane was born after the war, and had not at the time experienced battle first-hand, the novel is known for its realism. He began writing what would become his second novel in 1893, using various contemporary and written accounts (such as those published previously by Century Magazine) as inspiration. It is believed that he based the fictional battle on that of Chancellorsville; he may also have interviewed veterans of the 124th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the Orange Blossoms. Initially shortened and serialized in newspapers in December 1894, the novel was published in full in October 1895. A longer version of the work, based on Crane's original manuscript, was published in 1982.

Author Biography

Stephen Crane (Newark, 1871-Badenweiler, Alemania, 1900) logró en tan solo veintiocho años el reconocimiento literario de escritores como Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James o H.G. Wells. Con su primera novela, Maggie, una chica de la calle (1893), introduce en Estados Unidos el naturalismo narrativo, pero será La roja insignia del valor (1895), ambientada en la guerra civil de su país, la que le convierta en un autor de culto, cuya influencia se percibe en futuras generaciones literarias. John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut o Norman Mailer encontraron en el poderoso antibelicismo de La roja insignia del valor un modelo para analizar las contradicciones humanas que surgen ante la violencia y una reflexión moral sobre la degradación humana inherente a los ejércitos en armas. En 1897, agobiado por el conservadurismo de la sociedad neoyorquina, fija su residencia en Inglaterra. Desde allí viajará, como corresponsal de prensa, a la guerra greco-turca y a la que enfrentó en Cuba a España y Estados Unidos en 1898, experiencia de la que surgió Heridas bajo la lluvia, publicado póstumamente. Stephen Crane murió en 1900 en un sanatorio de la ciudad alemana de Badenweiler, donde había ingresado enfermo de tuberculosis.

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