{"id":33047,"date":"2026-10-24T04:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mundoebook.cl\/?post_type=product&#038;p=33047"},"modified":"2026-11-01T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:11:42","slug":"la-vida-secreta-de-walter-mitty-y-otras-historias","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/wp.mundoebook.cl\/?product=la-vida-secreta-de-walter-mitty-y-otras-historias","title":{"rendered":"La vida secreta de Walter Mitty y otras historias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuando Harold Ross, el fundador de The New Yorker, le coment\u00f3 en 1927 al entonces joven colaborador James Thurber que todo el mundo cre\u00eda dominar el uso de la lengua pero que en realidad nadie sab\u00eda hacerlo, no pod\u00eda imaginarse que estaba ante un escritor que iba a convertirse, al lado de nombres como Dorothy Parker o Truman Capote, en uno de los autores de referencia de la m\u00edtica revista neoyorkina. Observador milim\u00e9trico y narrador incansable, los relatos de Thurber nos divierten, nos arrastran, nos abren un claro de cielo por el que entrevemos, m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la iron\u00eda, las frustraciones del hombre moderno. La vida secreta de Walter Mitty, el m\u00e1s c\u00e9lebre de sus relatos que da t\u00edtulo a nuestra selecci\u00f3n, sirvi\u00f3 incluso para bautizar como \u00abs\u00edndrome de Walter Mitty\u00bb la tendencia compulsiva a fantasear con la que algunos hombres escapan \u2014a su modo heroicamente\u2014 de la r\u00edgida y anodina cotidianidad de lo que convenimos en llamar \u00abuna vida normal\u00bb.James Thurber naci\u00f3 en 1894 en Columbus, Ohio. Tras sus estudios universitarios, trabaj\u00f3 en la Embajada norteamericana en Par\u00eds entre 1918 y 1920, y posteriormente se dedic\u00f3 al periodismo. A partir de 1927, pas\u00f3 a formar parte de la redacci\u00f3n de la c\u00e9lebre revista \u00abThe New Yorker\u00bb en la que public\u00f3 gran parte de sus relatos y dibujos.El peculiar humor de James Thurber es f\u00e1cil de reconocer pero de muy dif\u00edcil definici\u00f3n. Cre\u00f3, tanto en su prosa como en sus ilustraciones, un mundo habitado por sagaces perros, hombrecillos grises, mujeres dominantes, matrimonios en permanente conflicto y familias cuyas vidas se ven inmersas en los m\u00e1s disparatados y sorprendentes acontecimientos, pero sobre todo, el humor de Thurber \u2014y su genialidad\u2014 radica en su ingenio y agudeza para presentar a esos personajes aparentemente insignificantes que se convierten en h\u00e9roes al desafiar con su imaginaci\u00f3n la monoton\u00eda de la vida aparentemente feliz de la sociedad del bienestar. Y, sin duda, Walter Mitty es el prototipo de ese hombre que mediante sus ensue\u00f1os vence sus fracasos en un mundo competitivo.En los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os de su vida, Thurber sufri\u00f3 una ceguera progresiva. Muri\u00f3 en Nueva York en 1961.La vida secreta de Walter Mitty y otras historias es una antolog\u00eda personal de James Thurber que recoge buena parte de sus obras m\u00e1s significativas: relatos \u2014algunos de ellos ilustrados por \u00e9l mismo\u2014 y las secciones \u00abF\u00e1bulas de nuestro tiempo\u00bb y \u00abDepartamento de animalitos dom\u00e9sticos\u00bb, que aparecieron en su mayor\u00eda en el \u00abNew Yorker\u00bb en la \u00e9poca dorada de esta revista, alrededor de la cual se agruparon c\u00e9lebres escritores y humoristas de la talla de Thurber, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelmann y P.G. 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