Sunday, March 15, 2015

Nobody pressured Harper Lee to publish second novel … – La Crónica de Hoy


 Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, he received no pressure to publish his second book and the sequel to the famous novel, Go Set Watchman (Go and put a sentry), according to an official investigation that reported yesterday US media.

According to the source, the investigation was conducted by the Security Commission of Alabama, an organization whose purpose is to prevent financial fraud against the elderly, who concluded that Harper Lee, 88 wants his second book is published and do so herself a member of that body in an interview said.

With this report would zanjadas speculation arose in literary circles in the United States, where the discovery of the manuscript is considered one of the big news of the last few decades, about why Lee would have agreed to publish it.

The Spanish readers will have to wait until later this year to enjoy the book to be titled Go and put a sentry, and whose rights to the Spanish-speaking world has Harper Collins. This novel will be released 55 years after it was published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which earned him a Pulitzer.

The work is refocusing on the same characters in To Kill a Mockingbird, although the action takes place years later, though curiously the novel was written before.

“In the mid-50s finished a novel called Go Set a Watchman. Includes Scout’s character as a grown woman and I thought it was a pretty decent job. My editor, captivated by flashbacks to childhood Scout, convinced me to write a novel from the point of view of young Scout, “explained Lee own in a statement when the 3 last February announced the publication of the sequel.

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