Cartas extraordinarias

In these extraordinary letters, María Negroni illuminates the world in which Louisa May Alcott, Emilio Salgari, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jack London, and so many other great 19th-century writers lived and created—writers whose narratives will forever be part of our sensitive DNA, the marks left on our hearts by those early readings. This carefully crafted, apocryphal correspondence, sometimes improbable, or even impossible due to its anachronism, is occasionally addressed to fictional characters who, without ignoring the biographical, historical, and social circumstances, embark, almost ruthlessly, on a relentless reflection on the costs and dangers of writing.