Dalva - Harrison, Jim
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Like many of Jim Harrison's books, "Dalva" was written in a tin-roofed cabin surrounded by dogs and horses roaming around at their leisure. One even has the feeling that while writing with one hand (Harrison used a fountain pen to the end) with the other he was drowning a rattlesnake. His characters seem to be built from this tension, almost always leaning towards the West, traveling through the wild immensities of the American continent, and far from the big cities. The protagonist of this book is Dalva, and the impression she made on her day was such that countless women with that name can…mehr

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Like many of Jim Harrison's books, "Dalva" was written in a tin-roofed cabin surrounded by dogs and horses roaming around at their leisure. One even has the feeling that while writing with one hand (Harrison used a fountain pen to the end) with the other he was drowning a rattlesnake. His characters seem to be built from this tension, almost always leaning towards the West, traveling through the wild immensities of the American continent, and far from the big cities. The protagonist of this book is Dalva, and the impression she made on her day was such that countless women with that name can be found today in the United States. "Dalva" is, after all, Jim Harrison's best novel, as he himself, critics and readers have unanimously recognized. It is the story of a woman who, in order to regain control over her own life, moves to the old family ranch in Nebraska. Dalva is forty-five years old, she is beautiful and fearless, and has undoubtedly had a life full of lovers and adventures. But now begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the memory of that half-Sioux boy with whom she fell in love in her youth, of that mixed-race son who was taken from her at birth and of that great-grandfather, a wise pioneer lost in the Great Plains, whose diaries recount the bloody annihilation of the Indians. The history of her family is therefore linked to that of an oppressed people, from the Civil War to the Wounded Knee massacre and the Vietnam War. It is the violent history of America, through which Dalva seeks a balm to heal that thing we call the soul. Dalva looks a lot like a wild animal and she is injured. She seeks shelter but takes out her fang, because she loves life.
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Jim Harrison (Míchigan, 1937 - Arizona, 2016) fue escritor, poeta, viajero, pescador, gran gourmet y buen bebedor. Se lo considera uno de los grandes narradores norteamericanos y ha sido comparado en innumerables ocasiones con Faulkner y Hemingway. Hijo de un ingeniero agrícola y un ama de casa, perdió casi por completo la visión del ojo izquierdo a los siete años, cuando una niña le atacó sin mediar palabra con una botella. Desde entonces fue la oveja negra de la familia, y mientras sus hermanos forjaban sus carreras como decanos de distintas universidades, él ya había dejado de estudiar a los dieciocho años y se había marchado a Nueva York tras la sombra de Rimbaud, quería ser poeta. En una entrevista reciente, Harrison declaró 'Cualquiera que estuviera un poco loco me gustaba. Yo era como un personaje de Roberto Bolaño, siempre persiguiendo las cosas más descabelladas'. Harrison leyó a Bolaño, pero antes leyó a Federico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén, Antonio Machado, César Vallejo... Eso sí, siempre como autodidacta, nunca fue a un taller de escritura y sin embargo dominó todos los géneros, siendo autor de una veintena de novelas, catorce poemarios, diversos ensayos y dos volúmenes de memorias, una extensa obra que ha sido traducida a más de treinta lenguas. Sus libros han conformado una constante exploración de la relación del ser humano con la naturaleza salvaje, y un viaje de ida y vuelta entre los laberintos de la mente y los placeres del cuerpo. Nadie como él ha descrito los grandes paisajes de Estados Unidos, el legado indio (del que él mismo es depositario) y la historia contemporánea de la América rural. Entre sus obras más importantes se encuentran la mundialmente famosa, por su adaptación al cine, Leyendas de otoño, así como Dalva, Sundog o Julip.