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Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
Jeffrey Eugenides
Synopsis "Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)"
"I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it's at." -John Cheever A Penguin Classic Saul Bellow's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt Dleisher. At the time of Humboldt's death, Charlie's life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neurotic Mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Jeffrey Eugenides (Detroit, 1960) estudió en las universidades de Brown y Stanford. Es autor de tres aclamadas novelas, todas ellas publicadas por Anagrama: Las vírgenes suicidas, llevada al cine por Sofia Coppola: «Extraordinaria novela, las hermanas Lisbon son a la literatura de los noventa lo que el Holden Caulfield de El guardián entre el centeno fue a la de los cincuenta» (Sergi Sánchez, El Mundo); Middlesex, que obtuvo el Pulitzer 2003 y fue considerada una de las mejores novelas de las últimas décadas: «Sobresaliente, poderosísima» (Antonio Fontana, ABC); «Magnífica saga familiar, una novela deslumbrante» (Ignacio Martínez de Pisón); «Colosal» (David Guzmán, La Razón); y La trama nupcial: «Fino y empático... Eugenides vuelve para reclamar su lugar entre los maestros artesanos de la (gran) novela (americana)» (Rubén Pujol, Rockdelux); «Una luminosa meditación acerca de la distancia que media entre la literatura y la vida» (Eduardo Lago, El País).
