by John Updike · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402068804
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«El centauro» is the novel by John Updike, published by Bruguera in paperback (347 pages, in Spanish).
In a small town in Pennsylvania in the late 1940s, professor George Caldwell seeks to make sense of his life while his teenage son grows and changes. The plot alternates everyday routine with the myth of the centaur Chiron and his link to Prometheus, and offers a reflection on sacrifice, fatherhood and identity.
Translation by Enrique Hegewicz of the English original The Centaur (1963); Bruguera edition in the Libro Amigo collection, Barcelona, 1980.
For readers of literary fiction, twentieth-century American classics and reinterpretations of classical mythology.
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.
