Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
El mayor poema del siglo XX. Adem s de ser el gran poema del siglo XX, La tierra bald a es una obra esencial para entender nuestro tiempo. Con una dicci n y unas im genes rompedoras, T.S. Eliot sabe cantar la devastaci n de la primera guerra mundial, la adecuaci n del hombre a la ciudad como nuevo y definitivo exilio de la naturaleza, el deseo dif cil entre mujeres y hombres, y convocar a la vez las voces del pasado literario de Occidente. Pero m s all del intimidante virtuosismo t cnico y de la intensidad est tica que el poema desata, en estos versos emociona sobre todo la desnuda humanidad que estalla en silencio.
Esta nueva edici n especial, editada, prologada y traducida por Andreu Jaume, que tambi n nos da su versi n de Prufrock, el primer poemario de Eliot y referente indispensable para entender el resto de su poes a, viene a recordarnos la vigencia, la ambici n y el ejemplo de un poeta, un cr tico y un editor que consigui crear una nueva visi n del mundo contempor neo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A new edition of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece, The Waste Land, originally published in 1922.Widely considered to be one of the most important poems of the 20th century and the seminal work of modernist poetry. A wide-ranging work, Eliot drew upon the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, along with literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon such as Dante's Divine Comedy and Shakespeare, Buddhism, and the Hindu Upanishads, interspersed with images of modern British society.
Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot (1888 - 1965) was an Anglo-American poet, essayist, playwright, considered to be one of the 20th century's major poets and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Eliot moved to England in 1914 and went on to settle, work, and marry there, becoming a British citizen in 1927 at the age of 39.
Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in 1915, which was received as a modernist masterpiece. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943), as well as seven plays, including the Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.