Título: Katherine Anne Porter
Autor: Darlene Harbour Unrue
Sinopse: The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning volume of writings from the author of Pale Horse, Pale Rider—now combined with little-known works of prose for the very first time Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter “writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.” Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than thirty, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, “many are unsurpassed in modern fiction.” The Library of America now reprints the landmark 1965 volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter—which features tales like “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” and “Flowering Judas”—and pairs it with a completely new selection from Porter’s long-out-of-print short prose. Expanding the contents of her 1952 collection The Days Before to include both early journalism and major pieces from her final three decades, the prose works collected here are grouped in four parts: critical essays on writers she loved and learned from, including James, Cather, Lawrence, and Colette; personal essays and speeches on such topics as the craft of writing, her own work, women in myth and in history, and American politics; essays and reports on Mexican life, letters, and revolution; and two previously uncollected forays into autobiography. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Katherine Anne Porter”, de Darlene Harbour Unrue, publicado pela editora LIBRARY OF AMERICA, em 2008 e com 1068 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Páginas: 1068
Ano: 2008
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781598530292
ISBN13: 9781598530292
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Library of America oferecem uma experiência de leitura que privilegia narrativas densas e de grande fôlego, muitas vezes apresentadas em edições cuidadosas e definitivas. O catálogo privilegia obras que exploram momentos históricos cruciais dos Estados Unidos, como a Guerra Civil e a Grande Depressão, além de clássicos da literatura americana em suas múltiplas vertentes. Há um equilíbrio entre textos mais narrativos, como romances e sagas familiares, e volumes que adotam um tom documental, reunindo cartas, discursos e relatos em coleções amplas. A linguagem tende a ser elaborada, com atenção ao contexto social e político, e o ritmo varia entre o envolvimento emocional e a reflexão crítica.
