by Carson McCullers · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432248276
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«La balada del café triste» is Carson McCullers' collection of short stories, published by Austral in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Under the title of the story that gives the volume its name, the book brings together several short stories by Carson McCullers set in the American South, where the author portrays loneliness, longing and the intimacy of characters trapped in lives marked by lack of communication and the desire for connection. The prose, poetic and penetrating in tone, turns these stories into small forays into the deep America of the first half of the twentieth century.
The volume belongs to Austral's Contemporánea collection. The Spanish translation is by María Campuzano.
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
