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3.31 AVERAGE
3.31 AVERAGE
What a brilliantly constructed novella. I admire Edith Wharton's writing more and more as I dive deeper into her work. Ethan Frome is a very grim, tragic, wintry story and, to be honest, one I don't think is going to be for everyone. Just look at the shockingly low ratings so many people have given it here on Goodreads! It knocked my socks off, though. It's not surprising this book is often taught in school because it packs a lot of literary power in a very small package.
Me contaron esta historia varias personas , poco a poco, y, como suele suceder en tales casos, cada vez era una historia distinta. Si conoce usted Starkfield (Massachusetts), sabrá dónde queda la oficina de correos. Si conoce la oficina de correos, habrá visto a Ethan Frome llegar, soltar las riendas de su bayo de lomo hundido y cruzar cansinamente la acera de ladrillo hasta la columnata blanca: y seguro que se ha preguntado quién era.
Ethan Frome, 1911
Edith Wharton
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Traducción de Ángela Pérez
Un joven ingeniero atrapado por las condiciones climatológicas en un pequeño pueblo de Massachusetts se interesa por la historia de un silencioso individuo que suele ver conduciendo un viejo carro. Posteriormente, necesita transporte a su lugar de trabajo y termina contratando a ese individuo, Ethan Frome como conductor.
Sorprendidos por una fuerte tormenta de nieve, deben refugiarse en casa de Frome, un lugar frío y desangelado donde convive con su esposa y la prima de ésta.
Para conocer los hechos que han llevado a Ethan Frome a ser "una ruina de hombre", debemos retroceder veinte años.
Mattie, la joven prima de su esposa Zeena, se ha mudado a la granja para cuidarla debido a su enfermedad y su llegada supone un soplo de aire fresco en la estancada vida de Ethan.
Los problemas matrimoniales se suman a los problemas económicos y mientras se hunde en la desesperación, la idea de una nueva vida con Mattie desata sus deseos de escapar juntos a California.
Una bellísima y trágica historia de amor y oportunidades perdidas que Wharton empezó a escribir como terapia a su propio fracaso matrimonial y basándose en una historia que conoció de primera mano cuando trabajaba en una biblioteca.
Se ha colado directamente en el primer puesto de favoritas de una autora genial
#ethanfrome #edithwharton #leeresvivir #leermola #leoautoras #womenwriters #escritorasamericanas #leoautorasOct #leoclásicos
Ethan Frome, 1911
Edith Wharton
@albaeditorial
Traducción de Ángela Pérez
Un joven ingeniero atrapado por las condiciones climatológicas en un pequeño pueblo de Massachusetts se interesa por la historia de un silencioso individuo que suele ver conduciendo un viejo carro. Posteriormente, necesita transporte a su lugar de trabajo y termina contratando a ese individuo, Ethan Frome como conductor.
Sorprendidos por una fuerte tormenta de nieve, deben refugiarse en casa de Frome, un lugar frío y desangelado donde convive con su esposa y la prima de ésta.
Para conocer los hechos que han llevado a Ethan Frome a ser "una ruina de hombre", debemos retroceder veinte años.
Mattie, la joven prima de su esposa Zeena, se ha mudado a la granja para cuidarla debido a su enfermedad y su llegada supone un soplo de aire fresco en la estancada vida de Ethan.
Los problemas matrimoniales se suman a los problemas económicos y mientras se hunde en la desesperación, la idea de una nueva vida con Mattie desata sus deseos de escapar juntos a California.
Una bellísima y trágica historia de amor y oportunidades perdidas que Wharton empezó a escribir como terapia a su propio fracaso matrimonial y basándose en una historia que conoció de primera mano cuando trabajaba en una biblioteca.
Se ha colado directamente en el primer puesto de favoritas de una autora genial
#ethanfrome #edithwharton #leeresvivir #leermola #leoautoras #womenwriters #escritorasamericanas #leoautorasOct #leoclásicos
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Note to self for future real review: Wallace's genius echoes in how Ethan's story is basically Gately's story (to an extent, anyway) (and with awareness of how physical genius is still genius)...
It isn't that I'd never heard of this book... but I had no interest in reading it until I was re-reading [b:Infinite Jest|6759|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604485s/6759.jpg|3271542] for the 5th (??) time and realized that it must be in some way important to Gately. (And but so even though Gately never finishes it.)
It isn't that I'd never heard of this book... but I had no interest in reading it until I was re-reading [b:Infinite Jest|6759|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604485s/6759.jpg|3271542] for the 5th (??) time and realized that it must be in some way important to Gately. (And but so even though Gately never finishes it.)
Edith Wharton is one of my favourite authors and I thought I had read all her books when I came across this one.
A tragic love story told so very beauitfully so you can feel the dilemmas and see the events which brought the characters to where they are now. Told by an outsider, a visitor. I loved it.
A tragic love story told so very beauitfully so you can feel the dilemmas and see the events which brought the characters to where they are now. Told by an outsider, a visitor. I loved it.
Wharton's unswerving focus on her main characters, and her skillful evocation of the stifling atmosphere enclosing them, gives this novella more of the feel of a short story. Very hard to put down once you've started, since her tight plotting and the many questions she leaves unanswered keep you moving forward without even realizing it; I read the 150-ish pages in about 3 hours that I hardly felt go by. I prefer The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country for their somewhat more sophisticated stories and character development, but this is a great quick read as a tasting portion, as a sharply defined tale of tragic love, and as an exercise in the creation of suspense. I hadn't read Ethan Frome for at least a decade, so I wondered how it would hold up for me—whether Wharton could possibly be as comfortable with rural, uneducated characters and the frozen farmlands of New England as I find her to be with parlors, ballrooms, and the privileged classes of New York. But her vivid sketches of 'country' types, and the landscapes that both imprison and illuminate them, did not disappoint.
Much like House of Mirth, which I remember thinking was one of the most discouraging novels I've ever read (and I've read Jude & Tess), this tiny novel is unremittingly dismal. I was rereading to see if I should inflict it on 10th-graders, but I don't think I will. It's difficult at 15 to grasp that life can be what Ethan Frome portrays, and I'm not sure I know how to make it seem worth their consideration.