Cuentos completos reúne todos los relatos de Dylan Thomas en una cuidada edición, con excelente traducción de Miguel Martínez-Lage y con presentación de Manuel Vicent. Esta recopilación de todos los cuentos de Dylan Thomas, que van cronológicamente desde los relatos oscuros y casi surrealistas de su juventud hasta celebraciones de la vida tan gloriosamente ruidosas como «Navidades infantiles en Gales» y «Con otra piel», traza el progreso del llamado Rimbaud de Cwmdonkin Drive hacia su dominio del lenguaje cómico. Aquí también hay historias escritas originalmente para la radio y la televisión y, en un breve apéndice, las piezas de juventud publicadas por primera vez en Swansea Grammar School Magazine. Un punto culminante de la colección es el «Retrato del artista cachorro», un vívido collage de recuerdos de su infancia en Swansea que combina el lirismo de su poesía con el brillo y el humor astuto.
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Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953) was a Welsh poet who wrote in English. Many regard him as one of the 20th century's most influential poets. In addition to poetry, Thomas wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, with the latter frequently performed by Thomas himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his booming, at times, ostentatious voice, with a subtle Welsh lilt, became almost as famous as his works. His best-known work includes the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night." Appreciative critics have also noted the superb craftsmanship and compression of poems such as "In my craft or sullen art" and the rhapsodic lyricism of Fern Hill.
