Hope Mirrlees – författare

"Den är ett litet gyllene mirakel, den här boken". Så skriver Neil Gaiman i förordet till Hope Mirrlees roman från 1926. Mellan älvlandet och havet ligger den fria staten Dorimar. I huvudstaden Dunkelros lever borgmästaren Gyllenkamme ett stillsamt och behagligt liv, tills det en dag visar sig att hans tolvårige son ätit av den förbjudna älvfrukten. Boken blev från 1970-talet en kultbok i fantasykretsar. Detta är den första svenska översättningen någonsin. Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) var en engelsk författare, översättare och poet. Hon var god vän med Virginia Woolf och TS Eliot och levde och skrev under många år tillsammans medklassicisten och feministen Jane Harrison.

A true classic - and the 'single most beautiful...and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century' Neil GaimanLud-in-the-Mist is a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The Dapple springs from the land of Faerie, and is a great trial to Lud, which rejects anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Nathaniel Chanticleer, a dreamy, melancholy man, is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past; a secret he refuses even to acknowledge. But with the disappearance of his daughter, and a long-overdue desire to protect his son, he realises Lud is changing - and something must be done.

Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.

Paris: A Poem is a daring, experimental, psychogeographic long poem written by the British writer Hope Mirrlees. Offering a snapshot of post-war Paris, it describes a journey through the city from day to night by means of innovative and playful typography, collage and fragmentation. This would be a centenary edition, reproducing the original design and setting of the very first, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1920.

The book that New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman considers "one of the finest [fantasy novels] in the English language."Between the mountains and the sea, between the sea and Fairyland, lay the Free State of Dorimare and its picturesque capital, Lud-in-the-Mist. No Luddite ever had any truck with fairies or Fairyland. Bad business, those fairies. The people of Dorimare had run them out generations ago--and the Duke of Dorimare along with them. Until the spring of his fiftieth year, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist and High Seneschal of Dorimare, had lived a sleepy life with his only son, Ranulph. But as he grew, Ranulph was more and more fond of talking nonsense about golden cups, and snow-white ladies milking azure cows, and the sound of tinkling bridles at midnight. And when Ranulph was twelve, he got caught up with the fairies, and Nathaniel''s life would never be the same.

The prosaic and law-abiding inhabitants of Lud-in-the-Mist, a city located at the confluence of the rivers Dapple and Dawl, in the state of Dorimare, must contend with the influx of fairy fruit and the effect of the inhabitants of the bordering land of Faerie, whose presence and very existence they had sought to banish from their rational lives. When the denial proves futile, their mayor, the respectable Nathaniel Chanticleer, finds himself involved reluctantly with the conflict and obliged to change his conventional personal life and disregard the traditions of Lud-in-the-Mist to find a reconciliation.

«Hope Mirrlees se ha aventurado en el reino de George MacDonald, de C. S. Lewis y de Jorge Luis Borges: ha construido algo brillante e imaginativo que sin duda amerita estar a la par de Morris, Dunsany y otros maestros de la fantasía moderna».Lin CarterEntrebrumas es una próspera ciudad mercantil de apariencia medieval gobernada por Nathaniel Chanticleer, un burgués respetable. En su día, sus habitantes, amantes del orden y del trabajo, decidieron separarse del Reino de las Hadas. Sin embargo, un buen día llega de contrabando fruta de las hadas, un manjar prohibido que provoca en aquellos que lo comen un acceso de alegría y creatividad, lo cual trastoca el orden establecido y obliga a sus habitantes a sumergirse en una aventura que cambiará para siempre el curso de su vida. «Uno de los antecedentes de Tolkien y Lewis, Entrebrumas no sólo es un maravilloso relato sobre la convivencia de lo cotidiano y lo extraordinario, sino también una reflexión sobre la relación entre el arte y la vida». Publishers Weekly«La escritura de Mirrlees se mueve entre el humor, el vitalismo poético y la auténtica perversidad». The Encyclopedia of Fantasy«Una tragicomedia shakesperiana, un asesinato misterioso, una alegoría polifacética y una historia fantástica».Mary Gentle«Lo que tenemos aquí es la más rara de las criaturas: la novela fantástica de las ideas».Michael Swanwick

"e;Paris. Un poema"e; representa un importante hito en la vanguardia en lengua inglesa. Publicado en 1920 en Hogarth Press, la mitica editorial fundada y dirigida por Leonard y Virginia Woolf, condenso muchos de los postulados del modernismo (el gusto por lo "e;oculto"e;, la fragmentacion, el caracter o el "e;metodo mitico"e;, las alusiones literarias, historicas y politicas o la libertad formal) y antecedio en casi tres anos a "e;La tierra baldia"e;, de T. S. Eliot. Una autentica "e;joya perdida"e; de la cual ofrecemos la primera traduccion al castellano.