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Cuentos Completos / The Complete Short Stories

By (author) Monsieur Oscar Wilde, Introduction by Luis Antonio de Villena, Translated by Catalina Montes Mozo

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Toda la narrativa breve de uno de los clÃ¡sicos mÃ¡s exquisitos de la literatura. Este volumen ofrece toda la narrativa breve de Oscar Wilde, pequeÃ±as joyas literarias que Ã©l calificaba de Â«estudios en prosaÂ», pensadas tanto para niÃ±os como para adultos. Sus primeros relatos, entre los que encontramos Â«El PrÃncipe FelizÂ» y Â«El ruiseÃ±or y la rosaÂ», tienen ecos de Andersen, Hoffmann y de la tradiciÃ³n popular. En estas fÃ¡bulas de exquisito lenguaje, el encanto reside en la ingenuidad y la bondad que exaltan. En El crimen de lord Arthur Savile y otras historias, entre las que destaca el famoso relato Â«El fantasma de CantervilleÂ», Wilde da rienda suelta a su vena satÃrica y humorÃstica, mientras que en Una casa de granadas, influido por el simbolismo decadente francÃ©s, se muestra mÃ³rbido, pagano y sensual, caminando triunfal por la belleza. Â«Leyendo y releyendo, a lo largo de los aÃ±os, a Wilde, noto un hecho que sus panegiristas no parecen haber sospechado siquiera: el hecho comprobable y elemental de que Wilde casi siempre tiene razÃ³n.Â» Jorge Luis Borges ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The complete short fiction of one of the most exquisite classics of literature. This volume offers Oscar Wilde's complete short fiction, little literary gems he called ""studies in prose"", written for both children and adults. His early tales, including ""The Happy Prince"" and ""The Nightingale and the Rose,"" echo Andersen, Hoffmann, and folk tradition. In these exquisitely worded fables, the charm lies in the innocence and goodness they exalt. In Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, which features the famous tale ""The Canterville Ghost"", Wilde unleashes his satirical and humorous vein, while in A House of Pomegranates, influenced by French decadent symbolism, he is morbid, pagan, and sensual, triumphantly pursuing beauty. ""Reading and rereading Wilde over the years, I notice a fact his panegyrists scarcely seem to have suspected: the demonstrable and elemental fact that Wilde is almost always right."" Jorge Luis Borges