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Escritos con el corazón en la mano y con un entusiasmo contagioso, estos ensayos nos muestran la belleza, complejidad, perfección, brillantez y exigencia del deporte preferido de Wallace.
«La belleza humana de la que hablamos aquí es de un tipo muy concreto; se puede llamar belleza cinética. Su poder y su atractivo son universales. No tiene nada que ver ni con el sexo ni con las normas culturales. Con lo que tiene que ver en realidad es con la reconciliación de los seres humanos con el hecho de tener cuerpo.»

David Foster Wallace fue en su juventud un avezado jugador de tenis y durante un tiempo llegó a plantearse incluso la posibilidad de inscribirse en el circuito profesional de su país. No es extraño, por consiguiente, que dedicara al deporte de la raqueta tantos textos a lo largo de su vida.

Escritos con la pasión desbordada y el entusiasmo contagioso tan propios de Foster Wallace, en los dos estupendos artículos que reunimos en este volumen, publicados en 1996 y 2006, nos asomamos a los entresijos del US Open y asistimos a la rivalidad entre Roger Federer y Rafa Nadal, dos tenistas con personalidades y formas de jugar opuestas.

La opinión de la crítica:
«Estos ensayos nos recuerdan el arsenal de talento de Foster Wallace: su incansable ojo para encontrar el nudo central de una historia y contarla, su capacidad para transmitir la verdad física o emocional de las cosas con un par de rápidos movimientos de muñeca, y su capacidad para saltar de lo mundano a lo metafísico con una velocidad y una pasión deslumbrantes.»
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

«Uno de los mejores escritores de nuestro tiempo [...]. Si nunca has leído a David Foster Wallace, su magistral estudio de Roger Federer incluido en esta antología es ideal para empezar.»
Steph Opitz, Marie Claire

English description:

David Foster Wallace's extraordinary writing on tennis, collected for the first time in an exclusive digital-original edition.

A long-time rabid fan of tennis, and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, published between 1990 and 2006, and hailed as some of the greatest and most innovative sports writing of our time.

This lively and entertaining collection begins with Wallace's own experience as a prodigious tennis player (Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley). He also challenges the sports memoir genre (How Tracy Austen Broke My Heart), takes us to the US Open (Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open), and profiles of two of the world's greatest tennis players (Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff About Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness and Federer Both Flesh and Not). With infectious enthusiasm and enormous heart, Wallace's writing shows us the beauty, complexity, and brilliance of the game he loved best.
About the Author: David Foster Wallace (Nueva York, 1962-California, 2008) es para muchos el novelista más importante de su generación. Publicada en 1987, La escoba del sistema fue su debut literario. Tres años después publicó La niña del pelo raro (Literatura Random House, 2000), relatos con los que captó la atención de la crítica. Su siguiente obra es la monumental y reconocida novela La broma infinita (Literatura Random House, 2002), que ha sido considerada por la revista Time una de las cien mejores novelas en lengua inglesa.

En Literatura Random House se han publicado además Entrevistas breves con hombres repulsivos (2001), Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volveré a hacer (2001), Extinción (2005), Hablemos de langostas (2011), su novela póstuma El rey pálido (2011), En cuerpo y en lo otro (2013), el legendario discurso pronunciado en la ceremonia de graduación en la Universidad de Kenyon, Esto es agua (2014), El tenis como experiencia religiosa (2016) y David Foster Wallace Portátil (2016), una recopilación de su obra más representativa.

En septiembre de 2008 David Foster Wallace, que sufría una fuerte depresión, se suicidó en su casa de California.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788439731238
  • Publisher: Literatura Random House
  • Publisher Imprint: Literatura Random House
  • Height: 188 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 843973123X
  • Publisher Date: 27 Sep 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 109 mm


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