La llama inmortal de Stephen Crane

In this gripping literary biography of Stephen Crane (1871-1900), Paul Auster recreates the fascinating life and creative energy of the young writer, journalist and poet who wrote The Red Badge of Courage in 1895. Crane lived only 29 years, but in That short space of time he cultivated the novel, the stories, the poetry and he was an adventurous journalist who covered conflicts such as the Cuban War. He met Joseph Conrad and Henry James, who praised his writing, and with his work changed American letters forever. In these pages, Auster also offers a window into life in New York and London at the end of the 19th century. The Crane years are also an unrepeatable time in which the country prepares to leave the America of the Wild West behind to become the capitalist power that would dominate the world during the 20th century; a time of prosperity that, however, hides an unresolved past marked by the African slave trade and the massacre of native Indians, and which is faced with the first social movements and union demands.