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Paperback El Robinson Urbano (Crónica) / The Urban Robinson (Chronicles) [Spanish] Book

ISBN: 6073928580

ISBN13: 9786073928588

El Robinson Urbano (Crónica) / The Urban Robinson (Chronicles) [Spanish]

El Robinson urbano, publicado originariamente en Granada en una edici n de escasa difusi n en 1984, y reeditado luego en breve tiraje en Pamplona en 1988, es el primer libro de Antonio Mu oz Molina, que muestra ya en plena saz n los rasgos caracter sticos de su estilo y su visi n del mundo.


Prologada hoy por Pere Gimferrer, se incorpora as por primera vez a un circuito de difusi n m s amplio esta cr nica de la cotidianidad ciudadana que el propio Antonio Mu oz Molina sit a y define certeramente al escribir en su texto inicial:


La mejor literatura de la modernidad la han escrito los grandes robinsones urbanos. Para escribir sus Confesiones, De Quincey tuvo primero que morirse de hambre y desolaci n en las aceras de Oxford Street, madrastra del coraz n de piedra. En una Am rica que ya prefiguraba la locura de Metr polis, Edgar Allan Poe vio en medio de las calles a su criatura m s temible: el hombre de la multitud. En Par s, hacia la mitad del siglo pasado, Baudelaire reuni las voces de Allan Poe y De Quincey y supo reconocer la tiran a del rostro humano infatigablemente repetido en las multitudes y en los espejos de las calles, pero tambi n descubri el territorio de un vasto para so artificial: el placer, absolutamente in dito hasta entonces, de recorrer la ciudad sin ir a parte alguna y sin tener otra compa a que la propia voz en la conciencia.

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El Robinson urbano (Urban Robinson), originally published in Granada in a limited edition in 1984 and later reissued in a small print run in Pamplona in 1988, is Antonio Mu oz Molina's first book, already showcasing the distinctive traits of his style and worldview in full maturity.


Now with a foreword by Pere Gimferrer, this chronicle of urban everyday life enters a broader readership for the first time. Mu oz Molina himself defines it in his opening text:


"The best literature of modernity has been written by the great urban Robinsons. To write his Confessions, De Quincey first had to starve and despair on the sidewalks of Oxford Street, stepmother of the stone heart. In an America already foreshadowing the madness of Metropolis, Edgar Allan Poe saw in the streets his most terrifying creature: the man of the crowd. In Paris, around the mid-nineteenth century, Baudelaire brought together the voices of Poe and De Quincey and recognized the tyranny of the human face, endlessly repeated in crowds and in the mirrors of the streets. But he also discovered the territory of a vast artificial paradise: the pleasure, entirely novel until then, of wandering the city without going anywhere, with no company but one's own inner voice."

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