The Kingdom of Speech

Resumen del libro

'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.' - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey through language. The Kingdom of Speech is a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.

From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in our Kingdom of Speech.

Biografía del autor

Tom Wolfe, nacido en Richmond (Virginia) en 1931 se reveló en los años 60 como genial reportero y agudísimo cronista. Fue el impulsor y teórico del llamado nuevo periodismo , al que definió como el género literario más vivo de la época. La casi totalidad de su obra ha sido publicada por Anagrama: "La Izquierda Exquisita", "La banda de la casa de la bomba y otras crónicas de la era pop", "Los años del desmadre", "El nuevo periodismo", "Lo que hay que tener", "La palabra pintada", "¿Quién teme al Bauhaus feroz?", "Las Décadas Púrpura", "En nuestro tiempo", "La hoguera de las vanidades" y "Ponche de ácido lisérgico".