Los mejores inicios de novelas


El American Book review, ha efectuado una selección de los 100 mejores inicios de novelas, yo he escogido cinco para compartir, indicando la posición que se le dio en el listado original, pero en mi propio orden, si quieren sugerir algunos, bienvenido sea:

75. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)

16. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. —J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

28. Mother died today. —Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942; trans. Stuart Gilbert)

64. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

24. It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. —Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)

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en las fotos a la izquierda Albert Camus, a la izquierda Paul Auster.