Name: La Vida y las Aventuras de Jack Engle (in Spanish)
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Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9788494712906

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La Vida y las Aventuras de Jack Engle (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Publisher

Funambulista

Language

Spanish

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.2

ISBN13

9788494712906

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "La Vida y las Aventuras de Jack Engle (in Spanish)"

Esta novela de juventud publicada anónimamente en 1852 en el New York Sunday Dispatch por el entonces joven escritor Walt Whitman y recuperada recientemente por el estudioso Zachary Turpin,Colección: Grandes Clásicos de la Universidad de Houston, y que recrea un universo con toques de Dickens y de Twain, narra las venturas y desventuras de Jack Engle, un joven huérfano que busca el sentido de la vida, el amor y un lugar bajo el sol en un mundo de picapleitos sin escrúpulos, virtuosos cuáqueros, actrices encantadoras y malandrines inolvidables. Todo ello convive en este melodramático —pero al mismo tiempo lleno de humor— folletín de misterio e intriga en un entorno urbano, el Nueva York de mediados del siglo XIX, que mezcla hábilmente registros y giros inesperados con una genuina aspiración literaria a la verdad y a la belleza del mundo.La obra, con algunas claves autobiográficas del propio Whitman, es una de las primeras incursiones del autor en lo que sería su destino literario; en palabras del especialista David S. Reynolds: «El verso libre sensual, filosófico, y salvajemente experimental y totalmente inclasificable de Hojas de hierba».

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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