by Ambrose Bierce · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435015929
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«Cuentos de soldados» is a book of short stories by Ambrose Bierce, published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. in paperback (276 pages).
Bierce writes from his experience as a soldier stories where metaphysical horror becomes tangible, with scenes of military life and of nineteenth-century civilian North America: gold prospector camps, battle fronts and characters marked by the frontier. Irony and acid humour turn war into a stage for human contradictions.
This edition belongs to the Pocket Edhasa collection (no. 92) and includes the translation by Jorge Ruffinelli.
For the general public, especially for those who enjoy classic short stories and horror atmospheres.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that "he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire." His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.
