De dónde soy / Where I Was from

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Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, contadas con una inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva.

«Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas». —The New York Times

Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su California natal, el estado al que, siglos atrás, llegaron sus antepasados y al que ella ató gran parte de su vida y de su obra. «Este libro representa una exploración de mis propias confusiones acerca del lugar y la forma en que crecí [...] unos malentendidos y malinterpretaciones que forman parte de quien soy en tanta medida que todavía hoy solo les hago frente de refilón», decía Didion sobre un libro tan intelectualmente provocador como íntimo.
 
Mezclando historia, crónica, memoria y crítica literaria, la autora explora los romances de California con la tierra y con el agua, sus deudas no reconocidas con los ferrocarriles, la industria aeroespacial y con el Gobierno central, así como el contraste entre su culto al individualismo y su fetiche por las cárceles.
 
Ya sea escribiendo sobre sus antepasados, sobre depredadores sexuales, políticos corruptos o escritores (sin excluirse a sí misma), Didion vuelve a demostrar aquí su incomparable capacidad de observación. De donde soy nos regala una mirada única al dibujar un mapa histórico y personal de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos, pero también al reflexionar sobre la escritura mientras revisa, a través del arte, la política, la economía y las vivencias de sus antepasados, el ideal de la «tierra prometida» a lo largo de dos siglos.

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this “arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” –The Baltimore Sun
Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.

Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir, and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
 
Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.

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Author:
Joan Didion
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
224
Publisher:
PRH Grupo Editorial (September 20, 2022)
Language:
Spanish
ISBN-13:
9788439739753
ISBN-10:
8439739753
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11.2oz
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5.42" x 9.05" x 0.67"
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