The Immortal Flame by Stephen Crane by Paul Auster

The Wild West, as a synecdoche of the American homeland in formation, extended its imaginary, its idiosyncrasy and its forms to an entire gigantic country of disparate sensitivities and beliefs regarding almost everything. Never could something so heterogeneous be suspected that it would take shape in a country like the United States today.

This is not the story of how it was made but the explanation of the triumph of why it was done ... It is true that the matter was not an easy construction or something to be proud of in his, at times, Machiavellian behavior. But the point is to keep the best. AND Auster He has played back a Stephen Crane capable of sending us his chronicle with the most opportune vision on the changes that pointed to something great.

A fascinating journey through the years in which the United States went from being the country of Billy the Kid and Buffalo Bill to becoming a capitalist world power.

In this gripping literary biography of Stephen Crane (1871-1900), Paul Auster recreates the fascinating life and creative energy of the young writer, journalist and poet who wrote The red red badge of courage in 1895. Crane only lived 29 years, but in that short space of time he cultivated the novel, the short stories, the poetry and was an adventurous journalist who covered conflicts such as the Cuban War. He met Joseph Conrad and Henry James, who praised his writing, and with his work he changed American letters forever.

In these pages, Auster also offers a window into life in New York and London at the end of the XNUMXth century. The Crane years are also an unrepeatable time in which the country prepares to leave the America of the Wild West behind to become the capitalist power that would dominate the world during the XNUMXth century; a time of prosperity that, however, hides an unresolved past marked by the African slave trade and the massacre of native Indians, and which is faced with the first social movements and union demands.

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