Introducción (Mundos perdidos: V)

17/07/2014 2.491 Palabras

« For man is a fallen creature —we know that from Genesis. Humpty Dumpty is also a fallen creature. He falls from his wall, and no one can put him back together again —neither the king, nor his horses, nor his men. But that is what we must all now strive to do. It is our duty as human beings: to put the egg back together again. For each of us, sir, is Humpty Dumpty. And to help him is to help ourselves (City of Glass, 47). » En la primera novela de paul Auster, City of Glass (1985), un excéntrico personaje llamado Daniel Quinn sigue de cerca los pasos de otro personaje no menos excéntrico, Peter Stillman, antiguo profesor universitario obsesionado con la idea de restituir el paraíso bíblico en América. un vagabundo persigue a otro vagabundo y en sus breves intercambios de palabras el segundo expone una serie de teorías disparatadas que conviene estudiar, puesto que arrojan luz sobre la obra posterior del escritor norteamericano. En el texto reproducido,...

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