La isla de Arturo / Arturo's Island

La isla de Arturo / Arturo's Island

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La historia de un chico que tiene que aprender a amar, sin saber aún cuáles son las coordenadas del amor. Quizá la mejor novela erótica del siglo XX, en el sentido más amplio y literario de la palabra. «Sus secretos le pertenecían solo a él. A sus silencios, sus alegrías, sus desprecios, sus tormentos nunca les busqué explicación. Para mí eran como sacramentos...» El hombre se llama Wilhelm; camina ensimismado y su hijo Arturo le sigue como una sombra, atento a cada movimiento de su héroe, de quien imagina aventuras y proezas sin fin. Los dos viven en un antiguo convento, un caserón algo apartado del pueblo, donde antes se oían rezos y ahora reinan el silencio y la suciedad. El padre se ausenta a menudo sin dar razones, y Arturo crece rodeado solo de libros y malas hierbas, hasta que de repente aparece Nunziata, la nueva esposa, y entre los dos se crea una complicidad extraña, casi a espaldas de Wilhelm, que espadre y marido, pero vive en la cuerda floja, con la mirada puesta más allá de la isla de Prócida, más allá de Nápoles y del aire tosco que lo rodea. Solo el mar sabe qué piensa y siente ese hombre de cabeza rubia, labios orgullosos y ojos duros; solo el mar y Arturo, que un atardecer descubre a su padre cantando una canción de amor delante de los ventanucos de una cárcel. Su voz es áspera y desentonada, pero en esa canción de cuatro versos está la clave de una de las novelas más sensuales del siglo XX y el talento de una gran maestra que con esta novela ganó el Premio Strega en 1957. «El amor verdadero es así: no busca provecho ni atiende a razones, y no se somete a ningún poder que no sea la disposición de los humanos.»Elsa Morante Reseña:«(La escritura de) Elsa Morante es hechizante. He intentado aprender de sus libros, pero me parecen insuperables.»Elena FerranteENGLISH DESCRIPTIONON A SMALL ISLAND in the Tyrrhenian Sea there lives a boy as innocent as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away. Black-clad women care for him, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes. Then the father returns with a new wife, Nunziata, a girl barely older than Arturo. At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels for his stepmother. In time, Arturo and Nunziata re-create the tragedy and passion that are as old as the history of men and women.


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  • Romance

    • Erotica
      • Collections & Anthologies






Publisher : Lumen

Author : Morante, Elsa

Language : Spanish

Edition : 001

Published :2017-06-20

Number Of Pages : 432

Binding : Hardcover

ISBN-10 : 842640328X

ISBN-13 : 9788426403285

Item weight : 1.46 lb

Dimensions : 1.1 in x 6.3 in x 9.45 in

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