by Laura Emilia Pacheco (Author)
El infinito naufragio re ne poemas, relatos e "inventarios" que dan cuenta de las inquietudes literarias que Jos Emilio Pacheco explor e interrog a lo largo de m s de medio siglo de escritura. El lenguaje, la Historia como figura de reverencia y terror, la m sica, la naturaleza, la capacidad humana para la destrucci n, la memoria, los naufragios --ancestrales y ordinarios-- se dan cita en un volumen que muestra, tanto a los m s experimentados como a las nuevas generaciones de lectores, que la de Pacheco es una obra llena de pasi n por el mundo y de asombro ante su fugacidad. Siempre renovada por obra del lector, la suya es una de las voces imprescindibles y entra ables de la literatura en lengua castellana.
El infinito naufragio
brings together poems and stories that account for the literary concerns that Jos Emilio Pacheco explored and interrogated throughout more than half a century of writing. Language, History as a figure of reverence and terror, music, nature, the human capacity for destruction, memory, shipwrecks --ancestral and ordinary-- come together in a volume that shows both the most experienced new generations of readers, that Pacheco's work is full of passion for the world and awe at its transience. Author Biography
Laura Emilia Pacheco is a writer, editor, and literary translator. She is the author of The Last World, a short story collection about themes and situations that take us to the limit. She is also the author of Love Rains Over the Sea, a children's biography about José Emilio Pacheco. As a translator she has dealt with texts by Virginia Woolf, Raymond Carver, Francisco Goldman, Alma Guillermoprieto, and George Steiner, to name a few.
Number of Pages: 428
Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 6.2 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2021
