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Antología del Cuento Extraño #2
Antología del cuento extraño 2
Publicada originalmente en un solo volumen en 1956 y reeditada en cuatro tomos en plena dictadura militar (noviembre de 1976, cuatro meses antes de la desaparición de Walsh), El cuenco de plata reedita, cuatro décadas más tarde, esta monumental compilación que viene a complementar desde una perspectiva ligeramente distinta la Antología del cuento fantástico de Borges, Silvina Ocampo y Bioy Casares. La compilación de Walsh es considerablemente más extensa, e incluye sólo cuentos (textos completos) y no fragmentos, siendo su eje una categoría menos formalizada que lo fantástico: �lo extraño�.
Sorprenderá al lector que el ordenamiento no responda a categorías convencionales de cronología o de nacionalidad, sino a criterios que van hilando página a página una progresión �tonal� de las distintas modalidades del relato �no-realista�: lo siniestro, lo maravilloso, el relato de aparecidos, lo alucinatorio, las puertas de la percepción y los otros mundos, las distorsiones de la subjetividad. Los cuentos están precedidos por breves introducciones.
Sorprenderá al lector que el ordenamiento no responda a categorías convencionales de cronología o de nacionalidad, sino a criterios que van hilando página a página una progresión �tonal� de las distintas modalidades del relato �no-realista�: lo siniestro, lo maravilloso, el relato de aparecidos, lo alucinatorio, las puertas de la percepción y los otros mundos, las distorsiones de la subjetividad. Los cuentos están precedidos por breves introducciones.
190 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2014
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About the author
Rodolfo Walsh
85 books177 followersRodolfo Jorge Walsh was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. He remains disappeared since March 25, 1977.
After finishing the primary education in his small town in Río Negro Province, Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in 1941, where he completed high school. Although he started studying philosophy at university, he abandoned it and did a number of different jobs, including editorial. In the late 1940s he joined the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista, from which he later moved to the Peronist cause.
In 1953 he received the Buenos Aires Municipal Literature Award for his book Variaciones en Rojo. In 1957 he finished Operación Masacre, an investigative work on the assassination of opposition figures during the military government of Aramburu. In 1960 he went to Cuba, where, together with Jorge Masetti, he founded the Prensa Latina press agency. He was then close to the CGT de los Argentinos.
Back in Argentina in 1973, Walsh joined the Montoneros radical group, and four years later he was killed during a shoot-out with a special military group that set him an ambush. His body and some of his writings were never seen again. The day before his death he wrote an Open Letter to the Military Junta protesting that their economic policies were having an even greater effect on ordinary Argentines than their human rights abuses.
Four films have been based on his work, including Operación masacre (1973) and Asesinato a distancia (1998), and three of his books were published years after his death, most notably Cuento para tahúres y otros relatos policiales.
After finishing the primary education in his small town in Río Negro Province, Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in 1941, where he completed high school. Although he started studying philosophy at university, he abandoned it and did a number of different jobs, including editorial. In the late 1940s he joined the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista, from which he later moved to the Peronist cause.
In 1953 he received the Buenos Aires Municipal Literature Award for his book Variaciones en Rojo. In 1957 he finished Operación Masacre, an investigative work on the assassination of opposition figures during the military government of Aramburu. In 1960 he went to Cuba, where, together with Jorge Masetti, he founded the Prensa Latina press agency. He was then close to the CGT de los Argentinos.
Back in Argentina in 1973, Walsh joined the Montoneros radical group, and four years later he was killed during a shoot-out with a special military group that set him an ambush. His body and some of his writings were never seen again. The day before his death he wrote an Open Letter to the Military Junta protesting that their economic policies were having an even greater effect on ordinary Argentines than their human rights abuses.
Four films have been based on his work, including Operación masacre (1973) and Asesinato a distancia (1998), and three of his books were published years after his death, most notably Cuento para tahúres y otros relatos policiales.
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March 30, 2022
Este segundo tomo no tuvo la fuerza y empuje fantástico/siniestro que el anterior. Me quedo con solo 2 d e sus cuentos, sobre todo con el de Lafcadio que, aún teniendo una trama previsible desde su primer párrafo, el manejo de la tensión fue buena, muy buena.
March 2, 2018
El primer tomo es excelente y este no se queda atrás. Me encantaron casi todos los relatos.
March 25, 2018
Muy buena recopilación, pero no tan buena como la primera.
November 7, 2021
Es una interesante recopilación de cuentos. Personalmente, me parece que el volumen 1 presenta relatos más interesantes que este volumen. Sin embargo, destacan mucho "La Casa Encantada", "El Caballito de Madera" y, el relato que culmina el texto, "La Promesa".
October 6, 2020
Buena selección de autores. Me ha gustado sobre todo Caballito de Madera.
December 30, 2021
Maravilloso segundo tomo, aunque considerablemente menos impactante que el primero de la antología.
October 22, 2015
El adjetivo "extraño" es demasiado ambiguo como para darle una coherencia temática a esta curiosa colección de cuentos. Aún así, es interesante ver cómo se explora ese espacio: hay cuentos terroríficos, místicos, futuristas, y de estructuras curiosas (para la época). Una bella colección con un par de cuentos excelentes, y las traducciones parecen perfectas. La leyenda de Rodolfo Walsh, y su verdadero heroísmo, sirven para darle otro motivo a la colección, como la apreciación estética de alguien a quién se le conoce más por sus valores políticos. Me arrepiento no haberme comprado el resto de los volúmenes en Buenos Aires.
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