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Chester Himes Biografía y Hechos

Chester Bomar Himes (Jefferson City, Misuri, Estados Unidos; 29 de julio de 1909 – Moraira, Alicante, España; 12 de noviembre de 1984) fue un escritor afroamericano, conocido sobre todo por sus novelas de serie negra, aunque también practicó otros géneros. Biografía Hijo de una familia de clase media, Chester Himes creció en Misuri y Ohio. Sus padres fueron Joseph Sandy Himes y Estelle Bomar Himes. Estudió en el instituto de Cleveland (Ohio) y en la Universidad de Columbus, de donde fue expulsado en 1926 tras su detención por participar en un robo. Por aquel entonces ya se desenvolvía en ambientes delictivos y del juego. Pudo evitar la cárcel, pero, dos años después, ingresó en prisión por robo a mano armada con una condena de 20 años. Durante su encierro comenzó a escribir relatos cortos y a publicarlos en revistas. El primero apareció en 1934. Puesto en libertad en 1935, desempeña diversos oficios y sigue escribiendo hasta que en 1945 publica su primera novela, If He Hollers Let Him Go! (Si grita, déjalo ir), que obtiene un gran éxito y le permite dedicarse a la literatura. En 1953, siguiendo el ejemplo de otros escritores americanos, como Ernest Hemingway, Himes comienza a pasar largas temporadas en Francia, en donde se ha convertido en un escritor popular, hasta que en 1956, cansado del racismo de su país, se instala permanentemente en París, en donde coincide con los también escritores afroamericanos Richard Wright y James Baldwin. En esta época comienza la serie de novelas de género negro policial que protagonizan los detectives de Harlem Ataúd Ed Johnson y Sepulturero Jones (Coffin Ed Johnson y Grave Digger Jones), que le haría mundialmente famoso y lo pondría a la altura de otros reconocidos autores del género, como Dashiell Hammett o Raymond Chandler. En 1969, Himes se trasladó a vivir a Moraira (Alicante, España), en donde falleció en 1984. Está enterrado en el cementerio municipal de Benisa. Obra Aunque las novelas y relatos de Himes pertenecen a varios géneros, especialmente los policiales y los de denuncia política, todas tienen en común el tratamiento del problema racial en los Estados Unidos. Chester Himes escribe sobre los afroamericanos en general, especialmente en dos libros que tratan sobre las relaciones laborales y los logros de los negros americanos: Si grita, déjalo ir — que contiene muchos elementos autobiográficos— presenta la lucha contra el racismo en Los Ángeles, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, de un trabajador de los astilleros. Una cruzada en solitario es una obra más larga con temática similar. Cast the First Stone (Tirar la primera piedra) se basa en su experiencia en la cárcel y fue su primera novela, pero se publicó con diez años de retraso, quizá debido al tratamiento positivo que hace Himes del tema de la homosexualidad. La serie de novelas más popular de Himes fue la que presenta a los detectives Ataúd Ed Johnson y Sepulturero Jones, de la policía de Nueva York, que prestan servicios en Harlem. Las narraciones se desarrollan en un tono sarcástico y una visión fatalista de la vida en las calles del barrio negro. Los títulos más conocidos de la serie son: For Love of Imabelle (Por amor a Imabelle), All Shot Up (Todos muertos), The Big Gold Dream (El gran sueño del oro), The Heat's On (Empieza el calor), Cotton Comes to Harlem (Algodón en Harlem), and Blind Man With A Pistol (Un ciego con una pistola). Todos fueron escritos entre 1957 y 1969. Bibliografía (Se han omitido los títulos en castellano en las obras de las que no hay constancia de traducción.) Se incorporan algunas anotaciones sobre la serie negra más conocida del autor, la protagonizada por Coffin "Ataúd" Ed Johnson and Gravedigger "Sepulturero" Jones. If He Hollers Let Him Go (Si grita, déjalo ir), 1945 The Lonely Crusade (Una cruzada en solitario), 1947 Yesterday Will Make You Cry (Por el pasado llorarás), 1952. Cast the First Stone (Tirar la primera piedra), 1953 The Third Generation (La tercera generación), 1954. The End of a Primitive ("El fin de un primitivo", ed. Júcar), 1955. For Love of Imabelle, también llamada A Rage in Harlem (Por amor a Imabelle), 1957. 1.ª novela de la serie. The Real Cool Killers, 1959. 2.ª novela. "La banda de los musulmanes" Ed. Akal, 2010. The Crazy Kill, 1959. 3.ª novela. Puede localizarse una edición en lengua catalana: Quin assassinat més bèstia, Ed. La Magrana, 1988. "El extraño asesinato", Ed. Akal, 2010. The Big Gold Dream (El gran sueño del oro), 1960. 4ª novela. All Shot up (Todos muertos), 1960. 5ª novela. Run Man Run (Corre, hombre), 1960. 6ª novela. En algunos artículos es frecuente encontrar esta obra al margen de la "serie de Harlem".[1]​ Sin embargo, en la obra aparecen, aunque con un papel bastante secundario, los dos detectives. Pinktoes, ("Mamie Mason" ed. Júcar) 1961 Cotton Comes to Harlem (Algodón en Harlem), 1965. 7ª novela The Heat's on (Empieza el calor), 1966. 8ª novela. Blind Man with a Pistol (Un ciego con una pistola), 1969. 9ª novela. The Quality of Hurt, 1972 Black on Black (Negro sobre negro, relatos), 1973 My Life of Absurdity, 1976 A Case of Rape ("Violación", ed. Júcar 1986), 1980 The Collected Stories of Chester Himes, 1990 Plan B, 1993 ("Plan B", ed. Júcar). Última novela de la serie de Harlem. Es una obra póstuma inacabada en la que estaba trabajando poco antes de morir. Véase también Literatura afroamericana Referencias Enlaces externos Himes.htm La Gansterera, revista digital sobre novela negra Biografía (en inglés) Estudio en inglés sobre la obra de Himes Página en inglés de los Amigos de Chester Himes Véase estudio por Emilio García Gómez en https://web.archive.org/web/20090503190526/http://www.etnografo.com/chester_himes_verdadera_libertad.htm El ciclo de Harlem. Descubre los libros populares de Chester Himes. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Chester Himes

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  • In the Heat of the Night sinopsis y comentarios

    In the Heat of the Night

    John Ball

    A 50th anniversary edition of the classic crime novel that inspired the Oscarwinning film starring Sidney Poitier.'They call me Mr Tibbs!'A small southern town in the 1960s. A musi...

  • All Shot Up sinopsis y comentarios

    All Shot Up

    Chester Himes

    'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hitandrun victim's been hit...

  • Learning the difference between black and white: The racial struggle between black and white Americans as represented in a selection of Chester Himes’ short stories sinopsis y comentarios

    Learning the difference between black and white: The racial struggle between black and white Americans as represented in a selection of Chester Himes’ short stories

    Ana Colton-Sonnenberg

    Despite the ferocious antiracism of his early works, Himes is best known and appreciated for his detective stories. Whereas these were very successful especially in Europe, the bit...

  • The Janes sinopsis y comentarios

    The Janes

    Louisa Luna

    The pageturning followup to acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down features the tenacious PI Alice Vega and her electric partnership with Max Caplan, as they follow a shocking murd...

  • Chester Himes : tragédie et oralité sinopsis y comentarios

    Chester Himes : tragédie et oralité

    Côme Ndongo Onono

    Chester Bomar Himes (19091984) est un des écrivains afroaméricains les plus connus, avec Wright et Ellison, et sa vie est marquée par la tragédie. Par la littérature, il cherche à ...

  • America Noir sinopsis y comentarios

    America Noir

    David Cochran

    In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pieties prevalent during the Cold War, such as the superiority of the American democrac...

  • A Case of Rape sinopsis y comentarios

    A Case of Rape

    Chester Himes

    From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about four black men in Paris wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering a white womanIn spare...

  • All Shot Up sinopsis y comentarios

    All Shot Up

    Chester Himes

    In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes.A gold Cad...

  • The Delicate Ape sinopsis y comentarios

    The Delicate Ape

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room. The German girl's mocking voice returns to his mind yet again: 'More melodrama,...

  • A Rage in Harlem sinopsis y comentarios

    A Rage in Harlem

    Chester Himes

    'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money a technique for turning ten dollar bil...

  • Drowned Hopes sinopsis y comentarios

    Drowned Hopes

    Donald E. Westlake

    Dortmunder's past comes back to haunt him when he returns home after an unsuccessful burglary and finds his old cellmate sitting in his living room. He needs Dortmunder's help in r...

  • Learning the difference between black and white: The racial struggle between black and white Americans as represented in a selection of Chester Himes' short stories sinopsis y comentarios

    Learning the difference between black and white: The racial struggle between black and white Americans as represented in a selection of Chester Himes' short stories

    Ana Colton-Sonnenberg

    The most important consequences of the Civil War as regards to black history were the abolition of slavery anchored in the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Fourte...

  • Don't Ask sinopsis y comentarios

    Don't Ask

    Donald E. Westlake

    Dortmunder has a job offer. He's been hired by third parties to pull off heists in the past, but never to lay his hands on anything this peculiar. It is the 800 year old femur of a...

  • The Real Cool Killers sinopsis y comentarios

    The Real Cool Killers

    Chester Himes

    'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he...

  • Ride the Pink Horse sinopsis y comentarios

    Ride the Pink Horse

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    'Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell, and she's never done it better' San Francisco Chronicle'An excellent novel . . . A sympathetic study of the...

  • Chester Himes sinopsis y comentarios

    Chester Himes

    James Sallis

    “[A] smart, conscientious, often stylish biography” of the great African American crime writer of the midtwentieth century (The New York Times).   Best known for The Harlem Cy...

  • Dear Chester, Dear John sinopsis y comentarios

    Dear Chester, Dear John

    John A. Williams & Lori Williams

    Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career...

  • The Temple of Optimism sinopsis y comentarios

    The Temple of Optimism

    James Fleming & Robert Fleming

    Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe for 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel James Fleming achieves something very s...

  • Chester Himes, l’unique sinopsis y comentarios

    Chester Himes, l’unique

    Sylvie Escande

    De part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, il semble qu'en se référant à Chester Himes, on parle de deux auteurs différents: d'un côté, un jeune romancier noir révolté, de l'autre un aute...

  • Plan B sinopsis y comentarios

    Plan B

    Chester Himes

    The final, posthumous installment of the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series, a novel of explosive, apocalyptic violence, and a startling vision of the effects of racism in Ame...

  • Chester B. Himes: A Biography sinopsis y comentarios

    Chester B. Himes: A Biography

    Lawrence P. Jackson

    Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work Finalist for the PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The definitive biography of the groundbreaking...

  • The Candy Kid sinopsis y comentarios

    The Candy Kid

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Jose Aragon is a ranch hand between jobs. Looking and smelling just like a piece of bordertown trash, he's hoping the Chenoweth Hotel, El Paso, will let him in for a muchneeded sho...

  • Johnnie sinopsis y comentarios

    Johnnie

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Private First Class Johnnie Brown is on a break in New York, with just two days to spend however he likes before shipping out to fight the Nazis. All he wants to do is ride the sub...

  • NYPD Red Books 1 - 3 sinopsis y comentarios

    NYPD Red Books 1 - 3

    James Patterson

    A brand new bundle of hardhitting crime thrillers from Sunday Times bestselling author James Patterson.NYPD RedEvery cop wants to be part of NYPD Red. It is the elite team in New Y...

  • Run Man Run sinopsis y comentarios

    Run Man Run

    Chester Himes

    In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop’s murderous outburst leads to a pulsepounding chase to silence a witn...

  • The Davidian Report sinopsis y comentarios

    The Davidian Report

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    One of them is the link to Davidian.One of them is holding out . . .Steve Wintress's flight to Los Angeles is forced down in bad weather, and he shares a car into town with three f...

  • Blind Man with a Pistol sinopsis y comentarios

    Blind Man with a Pistol

    Chester Himes

    At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. “A sensual, surrea...

  • Rumpole's Return sinopsis y comentarios

    Rumpole's Return

    John Mortimer

    'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday TimesHorace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of airconditioned pur...

  • Laura sinopsis y comentarios

    Laura

    Vera Caspary

    In the doorway of an elegant New York apartment, blood seeps over silk negligee, over polished wood floors and plush carpet: a beautiful young woman lies dead, her face disfigured ...

  • The Black Dahlia sinopsis y comentarios

    The Black Dahlia

    James Ellroy

    Los Angeles, 15th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walks into the night and meets a horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body is found drained of blood and cut in h...

  • The Essential Harlem Detectives sinopsis y comentarios

    The Essential Harlem Detectives

    Chester Himes & S. A. Cosby

    The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice  A onevolume selection of four novels in the legendary detective seriesblistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's crimina...

  • The Crazy Kill sinopsis y comentarios

    The Crazy Kill

    Chester Himes

    From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealo...

  • The Wrong Case sinopsis y comentarios

    The Wrong Case

    James Crumley

    Milo Milodragovitch is a oncesuccessful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his offi...

  • The Fallen Sparrow sinopsis y comentarios

    The Fallen Sparrow

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Who killed Louie Lepetino?Was it Barby, with her silvery sheen of hair, looking like a top model and acting like a woman madly in love?Or the beautiful Toni, who is hiding some str...

  • The Night of the Hunter sinopsis y comentarios

    The Night of the Hunter

    Davis Grubb

    'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouthwatering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money and a relen...

  • The End of a Primitive sinopsis y comentarios

    The End of a Primitive

    Chester Himes

    Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violencefrom the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives seriesYears ago, Jesse Robinson a...

  • The Franchise Affair sinopsis y comentarios

    The Franchise Affair

    Josephine Tey

    'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouthwatering prospect' Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious...

  • Get Real sinopsis y comentarios

    Get Real

    Donald E. Westlake

    In Westlake's brilliantly bizarre and always amusing world, it's usually the thief who comes out on top. But times could be changing. When a TV producer convinces our roguish crook...

  • The Trials of Rumpole sinopsis y comentarios

    The Trials of Rumpole

    John Mortimer

    'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive JamesHorace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steakandkidney pud and the coo...

  • The Simple Art of Murder sinopsis y comentarios

    The Simple Art of Murder

    Raymond Chandler

    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe  Featuring the iconic character ...

  • The Bamboo Blonde sinopsis y comentarios

    The Bamboo Blonde

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Griselda and Con Satterlee are spending a second honeymoon in a cottage on Long Beach, and it's not going well. To cap it all, Con picks up a blonde in the Bamboo Bar one night and...

  • Cotton Comes to Harlem sinopsis y comentarios

    Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Chester Himes

    'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouthwatering prospect' Daily TelegraphA conman is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings...

  • A Geisha for the American Consul (a short story) sinopsis y comentarios

    A Geisha for the American Consul (a short story)

    Lesley Downer

    Two cultures. One man and one woman. One moment in time. Cultures collide when Okichi, a beautiful geisha, is sent to work for the American envoy in Japan. Age and pride meet youth...

  • What's So Funny? sinopsis y comentarios

    What's So Funny?

    Donald E. Westlake

    Donald Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down and has the last laugh in WHAT'S SO FUNNY?, his latest comic caper novel. His perennially depressed master thief,...

  • The Big Gold Dream sinopsis y comentarios

    The Big Gold Dream

    Chester Himes

    In this pageturning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con man's religious street revival, and her elusive pile of cash vanishesAlberta Wright d...

  • The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders sinopsis y comentarios

    The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Alone in New York City, Lizanne Steffasson comes face to face with reality when her dream of acting on Broadway collapses.Now she just needs to pay her rent. So she answers an unus...

  • The Heat's On sinopsis y comentarios

    The Heat's On

    Chester Himes

    'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off but it shouldn'...

  • Native Son sinopsis y comentarios

    Native Son

    Richard Wright

    Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece this black history month. ...