Katherine Anne Porter: Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer
Katherine Anne Porter fue una reconocida periodista, ensayista, escritora de cuentos, novelista, poeta y activista política estadounidense, mejor conocida por su novela de 1962 'Ship of Fools', que fue la novela más vendida en los Estados Unidos ese año. Nacida en 1890, la carrera literaria de Porter abarcó…
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"The past is never where you think you left it."
#AmReading SHIP OF FOOLS by #KatherineAnnePorter
"'𝐼𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑙𝑎,'" she hummed, imitating Marlene Dietrich's broadest lowest style ... "I loved her best when she was being comic in her wonderful bull-contralto. How much nicer she was when she wasn't being the romantic heroine in the movies."
#AmReading SHIP OF FOOLS by #KatherineAnnePorter
"The passengers, emerging from the mildewed dimness of the customs sheds, blinking their eyes against the blinding sunlight, all had the look of invalids crawling into hospital on their last legs."
The ordeal of transiting through Veracruz over, the ship sets sail on the high seas bound for Bremerhaven. Now for the ordeals on board.
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Equally unflattering, "the...antics of creatures inhabiting the windowsills and balconies" of Veracruz, in particular the deceitful parrots:
"A long gray cat huddled watchfully in the window of his own house, staring at his enemy the parrot, that interloper with the human voice who had deceived him again and again with an invitation to come and get food."
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I'm pitching a translation of a short story collection at the moment. No bites...yet. I don't get readers (or publishers) who avoid short fiction. IMO, it's not length that matters but the quality of prose. Any number of words can tell an engaging story. But novels, it seems, hog the limelight.
#AmReading PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER by #KatherineAnnePorter. The stories (Porter called some "short novels") are brilliant. Jumping on board her only novel SHIP OF FOOLS next.
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