Tristessa
Resumen del Libro
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited – by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmosphere that expresses the yearnings of Kerouac to find himself, Tristessa, translated by Jorge Garca- Robles, a specialist in the beat generation, is the story of the strange loving relationship that the author had with Esperanza, as well as the significant description of the atmosphere that surrounded it, which depicts some key places of Mexico City back then.Hero of the beat generation, the creator of a model of life that would be followed by thousands of young people in the entire world, a sui generis mystic, Tristessa, which until recently was not known in Spanish and that was published in English, is one of his fresher and better achieved works. Tristessa es el nombre con el que Kerouac bautiz a Esperanza Villanueva, una joven mexicana catlica, prostituta y adicta a ciertas drogas, de quien se enamor durante una de sus estancias en Mxico, pas que visitaba con frecuencia, a mediados de los aos cincuenta. Tristessa, en la traduccin de Jorge Garca- Robles, especialista en la generacin beat, es el relato de la extraa relacin amorosa que tuvo con Esperanza, as como la significativa descripcin del ambiente que la rodeaba, en la que aparecen retratos de algunos lugares clave de la Ciudad de Mxico: Plaza Garibaldi, Nio Perdido, la colonia Roma. Escritor al rojo vivo, como lo calific Henry Miller, hroe de la generacin beat, creador de un modelo de vida que seguiran miles de jvenes en todo el mundo, mstico sui gneris, Tristessa, que hasta hace poco no se conoca en espaol y que se public en ingls apenas hace diez aos, es una de sus obras ms frescas y mejor logradas.
