by William Saroyan · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429720617
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«La comèdia humana» is the novel by William Saroyan, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (232 pages, in Catalan).
The action takes place in Ithaca, in the San Joaquin Valley (California), during the Second World War. The novel follows the Macauley family and especially Homer, a teenager who starts working as a telegraph messenger. Among messages of death, love and money, Homer discovers the fragility and greatness of human emotions.
The work was originally published in English in 1943 as The Human Comedy. This Catalan edition, from 1983, belongs to the El Cangur series.
For readers of classics, coming-of-age novels and stories set during the Second World War.
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy.
