Carson McCullers

At the novel's center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for all various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody's fool runs a small-town store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. The Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular café where the locals come to drink and gossip. But when her rejected and dangerous ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. Six short stories by Carson McCullers also appear in this volume.

The Ballad of the Sad Café

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.

The Haunted Boy

Transfered to an army base in the American South of the 1930's, Alison Langdon watches her husband, his commanding officer, and the officer's wife get caught up in a web of passion and jealousy.

Reflections in a Golden Eye

This collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," several early stories, and other important works

Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café

Collected Stories

A novel commenting on race, class, and individual responibility intertwines the stories of a dying middle-aged druggist, a corrupt old judge who cherishes his grand Southern lifestyle, the judge's orphaned grandson, and an angry Black youth in search of h

Clock Without Hands

Her brother's wedding intensifies a twelve-year-old's need to be recognized as an important person.

The Member of the Wedding

Escrita con tan sólo veintitrés años, El corazón es un cazador solitano (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, 1940) fue la primera novela de Carson McCullers y dio a conocer la magnitud de su talento. Centrada en el ambiente de una pequeña ciudad sureña y en un grupo de personas que —en torno a la figura emblemática del sordomundo John Singer, el personaje más conseguido de esta genial autora— tienen en común la esencial soledad, su marginalidad y el rechazo de una sociedad que les ignora, El corazón es un cazador solitario es ya un clásico de la narrativa contemporánea. Leyendo El corazón es un cazador solitario el lector no puede evitar implicarse con cada uno de sus personajes y vibra ante la experiencia de seguir a Carson McCullers en su viaje por las profundidades del alma humana. Esta pieza maestra justifica sobradamente las palabras que Graham Greene escribió acerca de su autora: «Carson McCullers y quizá William Faulkner son, tras la muerte de D. H. Lawrence, los únicos escritores con una sensibilidad poética original. Prefiero Carson McCullers a William Faulkner porque escribe de modo más claro; la prefiero a D. H. Lawrence porque no tiene mensaje.»

El corazón es un cazador solitario

Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Werkausgabe in 8 Bänden: Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

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Bajo el título de uno de ellos, La balada del café triste, se agrupan en este libro varios de los relatos más significativos de la singular y sutil narrativa de Carson McCullers, que han accedido ya a la consideración de clásicos de la moderna literatura norteamericana y constituyen incursiones en la silenciosa, secreta y sagrada intimidad del alma de sus personajes. Narrados con un prodigioso sentido de la construcción, los relatos de Carson McCullers alcanzan una resonancia interior que va mucho más allá de su sencilla y directa observación de la realidad. El mundo punzante, desesperanzado y profundamente poético de Carson McCullers constituye, en palabras de Edith Sitwell el legado de «una escritora trascendental».

La Balada Del Café Triste

Margarita G. Smith

An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America’s finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers’s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute,” which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. As new generations of readers continue to discover her work, Carson McCullers’s celebrated place in American letters survives more surely than ever. Edited by McCullers’s sister and with a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to writers young and old.

Selected Writings

The Mortgaged Heart

Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaimed for her sympathetic depictions of loneliness, the need for understanding and the search for love. These four masterly stories of eccentrics, failed prodigies, injustice and hope, written when she was in her twenties, explore the human condition with humour and pathos.

Wunderkind

Six stories including Wunderkind, A Domestic Dilemma, and The Sojourner accompany the novella about shattered dreams in a small Southern town

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories

Um dos melhores romances americanos do século XX, obra de autora de apenas 23 anos cria retrato profundamente humano de personagens desajustados Obra de estreia de Carson McCullers, O coração é um caçador solitário (1940) é um mosaico de personagens que pulsam profunda humanidade em seus desajustes. O romance causou impacto imediato na crítica ao reconstruir a vida de uma pequena cidade do sul dos Estados Unidos às vésperas da eclosão da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A figura central é um trabalhador surdo, John Singer, com quem os outros personagens estabelecem conexões afetivas. Em torno de Singer gravitam Mick, uma adolescente andrógena, apaixonada por música; um médico negro, Benedict Copeland, bravo defensor da justiça para seu povo; Biff Brannon, dono de um café onde se reúnem as pessoas da vizinhança; e um frequentador beberrão, Jake Blount, revoltado com as injustiças do mundo. Na rede sutil tecida por McCullers encontramos o retrato do Sul marcado pelo racismo, em paralelo às notícias das atrocidades cometidas pelo nazismo. O escritor negro do Mississippi Richard Wright observou que McCullers foi quem criou pela primeira vez, entre os escritores brancos, personagens negros com profundidade.

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