Name: Franklin Evans, el Borracho (in Spanish)
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Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9788437629629

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Franklin Evans, el Borracho (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walt Whitman

Publisher

Catedra

Collection

Letras Universales

Year

2012

Language

Spanish

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18x11 cm

ISBN

8437629624

ISBN13

9788437629629

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Franklin Evans, el Borracho (in Spanish)"

Despreciada por su propio autor, olvidada por la crítica y desconocida para la mayoría de los lectores, «Franklin Evans» es la única novela que Whitman escribió en toda su vida. La obra es un compendio de las preocupaciones y gustos del entonces joven periodista y popular autor Walter Whitman, quien una década más tarde se convertiría en Walt Whitman, la voz poética representativa de los Estados Unidos del siglo XIX.(*CR*)De «Franklin Evans» llegaron a venderse unos veinte mil ejemplares, una cifra que, sin embargo, jamás alcanzó ninguna edición de «Hojas de hierba» en vida del autor. La novela pertenece a un género que durante el siglo XIX inundó el mercado literario y la vida de los norteamericanos: la ficción antialcohólica, un fenómeno integrado en las corrientes reformistas que barrieron los Estados Unidos de la primera mitad del siglo XIX. En ese sentido, además del tema antialcohólico otro más general recorre la novela: la educación y formación del joven norteamericano en una sociedad crispada por los cambios y la crisis económica.

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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