Ahora considerada una de las mejores novelas de la literatura inglesa, Cumbres Borrascosas es la única obra escrita por Emily Brontë, quien, posiblemente debido a su prematuro fallecimiento a los 30 años, no llegó a crear más novelas. Publicada por primera vez en 1847 bajo el seudónimo de «Ellis Bell», esta novela ha capturado la imaginación de generaciones con su intenso retrato del amor y la venganza en los páramos desolados de Yorkshire, donde dos familias, los Earnshaw y los Linton, se entrelazan en una compleja red de pasiones y conflictos que trascienden la muerte. La estructura de Cumbres Borrascosas es única, presentando la historia a través de relatos de segunda e incluso tercera mano. Esto significa que la narrativa pasa por múltiples intérpretes antes de llegar al lector, lo que introduce un matiz de subjetividad y sesgo en la historia. Nelly, la narradora principal, es un personaje cuya simpatía hacia los protagonistas es cuestionable, lo que obliga al lector a participar activamente en la interpretación de los eventos y a no tomar nada por sentado. Este enfoque narrativo desafía al lector a profundizar más allá de la superficie de lo narrado, buscando el significado en los recovecos ocultos de la trama. Esta traducción ha sido realizada por Joaquín de la Sierra, un especialista en la traducción de obras clásicas al español. Joaquín ha trabajado en la traducción de novelas icónicas como Jane Eyre, La Guerra de los Mundos y El Hombre Invisible, entre otras. Su habilidad para capturar la esencia de los textos originales, al mismo tiempo que los adapta a la riqueza del idioma español, garantiza una experiencia de lectura fiel y enriquecedora para quienes deseen explorar este clásico de la literatura inglesa.
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Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, being younger than Charlotte Brontë and older than Anne Brontë. She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell. Emily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1824, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flourished. In childhood, after the death of their mother, the three sisters and their brother Patrick Branwell Brontë created imaginary lands (Angria, Gondal, Gaaldine, Oceania), which were featured in stories they wrote. Little of Emily's work from this period survived, except for poems spoken by characters (The Brontës' Web of Childhood, Fannie Ratchford, 1941). In 1842, Emily commenced work as a governess at Miss Patchett's Ladies Academy at Law Hill School, near Halifax, leaving after about six months due to homesickness. Later, with her sister Charlotte, she attended a private school in Brussels. They later tried to open up a school at their home, but had no pupils. It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by Charlotte that led her and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the first letter of their first names: Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell, and Emily became Ellis Bell. In 1847, she published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three volume set (the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne). Its innovative structure somewhat puzzled critics. Although it received mixed reviews when it first came out, the book subsequently became an English literary classic. In 1850, Charlotte edited and published Wuthering Heights as a stand-alone novel and under Emily's real name. Like her sisters, Emily's health had been weakened by the harsh local climate at home and at school. She caught a chill during the funeral of her brother in September, and, having refused all medical help, died on December 19, 1848 of tuberculosis, possibly caught from nursing her brother. She was interred in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels family capsule, Haworth, West Yorkshire, England.
