La mesa de madera de manzano / El Paraíso de los solteros y el Tártaro de las doncellas (Barbaros Minus) (Spanish Edition)

La mesa de madera de manzano / El Paraíso de los solteros y el Tártaro de las doncellas (Barbaros Minus) (Spanish Edition) image
ISBN-10:

8492979186

ISBN-13:

9788492979189

Author(s): MELVILLE, HERMAN
Edition: 1
Released: Dec 01, 2013
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
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Presented together in this collection are two stories by Herman Melville: a satire on spiritualism that examines the conflicting impressions of the members of a family of a bug-infested table and a reflection on the contrast between the pleasant life of rich bachelors and the alienation of enslaved young women. In "The Apple-Tree Table," the narrator brings down a table and book of witchcraft stories he finds in the garret of his old house, long believed to be haunted. Strange sounds come from the table before 150-year-old bugs begin to emerge from it, inspiring daughter Julia to believe the creatures are a symbol of the resurrection. "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" points out the outrageous differences between two groups by juxtaposing the lavish dinner of a group of young, single male lawyers, scholars, and writers in London in the first part with a visit to a paper factory in a nearly inaccessible mountain village where young women toil under subhuman conditions in the second.



Presentados juntos en esta recopilación hay dos cuentos de Herman Melville: una sátira del espiritismo que examina las opiniones divididas de los miembros de una familia sobre una mesa infestada de insectos y una reflexión sobre el contraste entre la vida placentera de los ricos solteros y la alienación de las jóvenes esclavizadas. En "La mesa de madera de manzano," el narrador baja del desván de su casa vieja--considerada desde hace tiempo encantada--una mesa y un libro de brujería. La mesa emite un extraño crujido antes de que insectos de 150 años emanen de ella, inspirando a la hija Julia a creer que las criaturas son un símbolo de la resurrección. "El Paraíso de los solteros y el Tártaro de las doncellas" muestra las inauditas diferencias entre dos grupos, yuxtaponiendo una cena pantagruélica con abogados, eruditos y escritores solteros en Londres en la primera parte con una visita a una fábrica de papel en una aldea de montaña casi inaccesible en la que trabajan mujeres jóvenes en condiciones infrahumanas en la segunda.

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