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Shirley Jackson fue una cuentista y novelista estadounidense especializada en el género de terror. Fue popular durante su vida y en los últimos años su obra ha recibido una creciente atención por parte de la crítica. Influyó grandemente en autores como Joanne Harris, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, Neil Gaiman y Richard Matheson.



Sus obras más conocidas son posiblemente el relato corto La lotería , que sugiere la existencia de un tétrico y estremecedor submundo en las pequeñas ciudades de la América profunda, y La maldición de Hill House . En su biografía crítica sobre Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman señala que tras la publicación de La lotería en la revista The New Yorker, cientos de conmocionadas cartas llegaron por parte de los lectores a la redacción, hasta el punto que Jackson ofreció poco después una respuesta en el San Francisco Chronicle:"Explicar exactamente lo que esperaba que dijera la historia es muy difícil. Supongo que esperaba establecer un rito antiguo particularmente brutal en el presente y en mi propio pueblo para conmocionar a los lectores de la historia con una dramatización gráfica de la violencia inútil y la inhumanidad general en sus propias vidas".[1]​El crítico literario Stanley Edgar Hyman, marido de Jackson, escribió en el prefacio de la antología póstuma de su obra que "ella rechazaba ser entrevistada, explicar o promover su trabajo de cualquier forma, o tomar posiciones públicas y ser la experta de los suplementos del domingo. Ella creía que sus libros hablarían por ella lo suficientemente claro a lo largo de los años".[2]​ Hyman insistía en que las visiones oscuras encontradas en el trabajo de Jackson no eran, como algunos críticos decían, un producto de sus "fantasías personales, incluso neuróticas", sino que más bien comprendían "una anatomía sensible y fiel" de la era de la Guerra Fría en la que vivió, "símbolos adecuados para [un] angustioso mundo del campo de concentración y la Bomba".[3]​ Jackson pudo incluso disfrutar del impacto subversivo de su trabajo, como revelaba la afirmación de Hyman de que ella "siempre estuvo orgullosa de que la Unión Sudafricana prohibiese "La Lotería" y sintió que al menos ellos habían entendido la historia".[3]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 14. diciembre 1916 – 8. agosto 1965   •   Otros nombres 雪莉·傑克森, شرلی جکسن, შირლი ჯექსონი

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“Me habría gustado llegar al colmado una mañana y verlos a todos, incluso a los Elbert y a los niños, agonizando en el suelo entre gritos de dolor. Entonces yo misma me serviría los productos, pensé, esquivando los cuerpos. Agarraría de los estantes todo lo que me apeteciera y me iría a casa, y quizá aprovecharía que tenía a Mrs Donell allí tumbada para darle una patada. Nunca me sentía culpable de esos pensamientos; solo deseaba que se hicieran realidad. «No está bien que los odies --me decía Constance--, eso únicamente te perjudica a ti», pero yo los odiaba de todos modos, y me preguntaba si su existencia tenía algún sentido.”

Shirley Jackson libro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

De niños , Realidad , Sentido , De dolor

Shirley Jackson: Frases en inglés

“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”

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Shirley Jackson libro The Haunting of Hill House

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“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

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“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”

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Shirley Jackson libro The Haunting of Hill House

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“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”

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“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”

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“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

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“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

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“Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.”

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“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”

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“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…”

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“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

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“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”

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“I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.”

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“You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?”

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“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”

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“I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.”

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“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.”

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“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”

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“Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

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Fuente: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 1
Contexto: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

“I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.”

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“When shall we live if not now?”

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Shirley Jackson libro The Sundial

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“On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.”

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“Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea?
Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep?
Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!”

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“Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.”

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“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”

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“God! Whose hand was I holding?”

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Shirley Jackson libro The Haunting of Hill House

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