by Patrick White · Noguer y Caralt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421741474
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«Los calcinados» is a collection of eleven short stories by Patrick White, published by Noguer y Caralt in paperback, in Spanish.
Eleven stories about characters wounded or marginalized by their surroundings. The title alludes to those left «burned» by society, observed by Patrick White with irony and compassion. The author, a Nobel Prize winner, shows in these stories the vulnerability and strength of the human being.
The English original, The Burnt Ones, appeared in 1964; the Spanish edition is from 1976 and has 318 pages in paperback.
Recommended for readers of short fiction and for those who want to approach a classic of Australian literature.
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, he developed a complex literary style and a body of work that challenged the dominant realist prose tradition of his home country, was satirical of Australian society, and sharply divided local critics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 and is the only Australian to have been awarded it.
