by John Updike · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472233829
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«El centauro» is the novel by John Updike, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in 1991, in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
The work reinterprets the Greek myth of Chiron and Prometheus, transposing it to a high school in a small Pennsylvania town. The wise centaur becomes a science teacher who tries to understand the conflicts with his teenage son during three winter days in 1947. The narrative interweaves mythology with modern life to address the father-son relationship, the teacher's agony, and the son's passage into adulthood, amid an intense generational confrontation.
Published in 1991 in the Andanzas collection, volume number 148. John Updike created the figure of the centaur as a counterpoint to his famous character Harry «Conejo» Angstrom.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in the reinterpretation of classical myths and family relationships.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
