Confesiones de un incrédulo y otros ensayos escogidos (Confessions of Unfaith and Other Selected Essays)

Escrito por Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Narrado por Walter Krochmal

Se ofrece aquí una selección de artículos y ensayos de H. P. Lovecraft sobre filosofía, ciencia, política y literatura. Aparecidos en periódicos, revistas amateury cartas, e inéditos en nuestro idioma, nos presentan una faceta totalmente desconocida —y acaso silenciada— de este influyente genio del imaginario literario del terror y la fantasía. Un Lovecraft polémico, provocador, y a veces desmesurado, defensor de los principios de una clase media norteamericana en franca zozobra durante los años treinta; pero, sobre todo, hondamente preocupado por la crisis civilizatoria del mundo moderno y el papel de la ciencia y la cultura en el futuro. Titula este volumen el ensayo autobiográfico «Confesiones de un incrédulo», que describe su apartamiento de la religión. Le siguen combativos escritos en favor de la ciencia y de un materialismo filosófico radical que no le impide entregarse, con la misma pasión, a un precioso estudio sobre el fantástico mundo de las hadas. En política, desde una posición declaradamente profana y de frustración pequeño-burguesa, y atosigado por los efectos palpables de la Gran Depresión —que hoy nos parecen tan actuales—, defenderá tanto soluciones «emocionales y poco confiables» como el férreo socialismo de Estado rooseveltiano. Por último, una curiosa guía de lectura y una galería de argumentos fantásticos nos ofrecen valiosas pistas sobre su labor creativa. Esta antología ofrece un sintomático autorretrato de uno de los escritores más influyentes de la reciente cultura popular moderna, H. P. Lovecraft

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: BookaVivo
• Traductor: Oscar Mariscal
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 22 nov 2022
• ISBN: 9781638117735

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.