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Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody's fool, runs a small-town store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular cafe where the locals come to drink and gossip. But when her rejected and dangerous ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. Among other fine works, the collection also includes 'Wunderkind', McCullers's first published story written when she was only seventeen, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946), adapted for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991, starring Vanessa Redgrave).If you enjoyed The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, you might like McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Unexpectedly moving, grimly amusing, intensely atmospheric'The Times'The work she has accomplished is note eclipsed by time but further illuminated'Tennessee Williams
Forlag Penguin Books
Utgivelsesår 2016
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780141183695
EAN 9780141183695
Serie Penguin modern classics
Språk Engelsk
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Sørstatsgotikk eller ikke, dette er uansett sju gode fortellinger. Tittelhistorien, en langnovelle eller en kortroman på 96 sider, er den mest særpregede: en saga om tre personligheter - eller arketyper - som støter sammen i en småby der hovedgaten er 100 meter lang. Alt som skjer blir nøye observert av både lokalfolk og langveisfarende i dette tette samfunnet.
Flere av de andre historiene minner om at McCullers var på vei mot en musikkarrière før hun ble forfatter. Særlig sterk er «Wunderkind,» debutnovellen fra 1936 hvor en ung, lovende pianist møter veggen. Men er det manglende talent eller den vedvarende kritikken fra en mannlig musikklærer som stanser henne?
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