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    Rock Crystal
    Rock Crystal
    Rock Crystal
    Audiobook1 hour

    Rock Crystal

    Written by Adalbert Stifter

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th century Austrian master Adalbert Stifter, influenced Thomas Mann and others with its suspenseful, simple, myth-like story and majestic depictions of nature. Poet W.H. Auden called the work "a quiet and beautiful parable about the relation of people to places, of man to nature." (Introduction by Greg W.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Rock Crystal
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    Adalbert Stifter

    Adalbert Stifter (Oberplan, 1805 - Linz, 1868). Escritor austríaco perteneciente al movimiento Biedermeier. Estudió en la Universidad de Viena y fue profesor e inspector de las escuelas de Linz. A pesar de los puestos que desempeñó, su vida estuvo llena de dificultades, contrastando con sus ideales de belleza, de armonía, de perfección moral y estética. El autor que mayor influencia ejerció sobre Stifter fue el escritor alemán Jean Paul. En su obra literaria destacan de un modo especial los relatos breves, agrupados casi todos en seis volúmenes con el título de Estudios. Las narraciones tempranas de Adalbert Stifter estaban impregnadas de un pesimismo básico; los seres humanos están expuestos a un destino arbitrario, casi demoníaco (por ejemplo, en El monte alto y en Abdías). Lo que preparan y planifican racionalmente se desarrolla de forma contraria y se convierte en fatal. Sin embargo, la obra tardía del escritor austríaco destaca por su armonía interna y externa. Piedras de colores y El veranillo de San Martín son sus obras más representativas.

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