Balada tristei cafenele

by Carson McCullers

Overview

De la povestirea Wunderkind, cu care scriitoarea născută în Georgia (SUA) debutează la 19 ani, și până la nuvela care dă titlul volumului, în Balada tristei cafenele se adună povești despre înfrângere și durere înăbușită: iubiri pierdute, pasiuni care s-au stins sau nici n-au apucat bine să se nască, răzbunări care dau greș. Îmbibate de marea melancolie a Sudului american (chiar dacă nu se petrec toate acolo), povestirile se alcătuiesc polifonic, ca o muzică a tristeților de oameni învinși de viață ori de dragoste: o adolescentă nu știe dacă mai vrea sau nu să fie toată viața pianistă; un bărbat își privește soția rătăcindu-și amintirile în alcool, dar rămâne, resemnat în furia lui mută, lângă ea și lângă copii; o femeie sălbatică și singuratică se îndrăgostește fulgerător și biata ei dragoste e nefericită...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789734657988
Publisher:	Polirom
Publication date:	11/13/2015
Series:	Biblioteca Polirom
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	471 KB
Language:	Romanian

About the Author

Carson McCullers, novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, the daughter of Lamar Smith, a jewelry storeowner, and Vera Marguerite Waters. Best known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding, McCullers also won awards for her adaptation of The Member of the Wedding for the Broadway stage. After completing high school, Carson studied for two years in New York before marrying James Reeves McCullers and moving to New York permanently upon the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in 1940 when McCullers was only 23. Heralded as a wunderkind by critics, McCullers' most significant was published between 1943 and 1950. Plagued by a series of strokes attributed to a mis-diagnosed and untreated case of childhood rheumatic fever, McCullers died at age fifty in 1967. With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, over two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children's verses, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, McCullers is considered among the most significant American writers of the twentieth-century.

Author biography courtesy of The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.

Date of Birth:

February 19, 1917

Date of Death:

November 29, 1967

Place of Birth:

Columbus, Georgia

Place of Death:

Nyack, New York

Education:

Columbia University and New York University, 1935