The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler wrote sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed.
Severance
By Robert Olen Butler
Chronicle Books
0-8118-5614-3
Monday, June 11, 2007
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2 comments:
que bueno el argumento, es como el de 21 gramos, no encuentras?
si, por eso me llamo muchisimo la atencion. bien amarga, medio morbosa, pero la idea de escribir este libro la encuentro brillante.
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