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A Harlot's Progress

by David Dabydeen · Vintage · tapa blanda · 288 pages

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Pages: 288 pagesAuthor: David DabydeenPublisher: VintageFormat: tapa blandaLanguage: enRelease date: 4/5/2000ISBN: ISBN 9780099288725

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Synopsis of A Harlot's Progress

En 'A Harlot's Progress', David Dabydeen reinventa la famosa pintura de William Hogarth de 1732, que narra la historia de una prostituta, un comerciante judío, un magistrado y un curandero, todos unidos por la codicia sexual y financiera. La novela de Dabydeen dota a los personajes de Hogarth de vidas potenciales alternativas, redimiéndolos de su estatus de clichés como depredadores o víctimas. El protagonista, en Hogarth, un joven esclavo negro, en Dabydeen, el habitante negro más antiguo de Londres, se ve obligado a contar su historia a los abolicionistas a cambio de su caridad. Sin embargo, se niega a proporcionar una letanía de agravios y a dar un relato simplista de palizas, abusos sexuales, etc. En cambio, el anciano ata al lector en nudos tan hábilmente como una ramera a su cliente: hilvana un cuento de mitos, verdades a medias y fantasías, recreando África y el Londres del siglo XVIII de maneras sorprendentemente poéticas. Lo que le importa es la odisea hacia la poesía, la rica textura de su narrativa, no su veracidad.



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David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen FRSL is a Guyanese-born broadcaster, novelist, poet and academic. He was formerly Guyana's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010, and was the youngest Member of the UNESCO Executive Board (1993–1997), elected by the General Council of all Member States of UNESCO. He was appointed Guyana's Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinaire to China, from 2010 to 2015. He is one of the longest serving diplomats in the history of Guyana, most of his work done in a voluntary unpaid capacity. He is a cousin of Guyana-born Canadian writer Cyril Dabydeen.

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