Winesburg, Ohio (Spanish Edition)

Throughout these twenty-two stories, Sherwood Anderson narrates the daily lives of the inhabitants of a small town in Ohio at the beginning of the 20th century. George Willard, a young reporter for the local newspaper, roams the town in search of a story worth telling. A teacher who expresses himself better with his hands than with words in front of his students; or a woman who one night feels an uncontrollable desire to run naked through the town's streets in the rain. Thus, the mundane and gray life of Midwest American farmers, populated by loneliness, ambitions, frustrations, and repressed desires, becomes, under Anderson's gaze and pen, a sharp and penetrating portrait of American life in those years, facing the incipient industrialization.

A moving book that, with its economy, sobriety, and precision of style, profoundly influenced an entire generation of writers, including Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Steinbeck, among others, and established Anderson as the master of the modern American short story.

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