Wyoming

The stories that Proulx has dedicated to the state of Wyoming -such as the famous "Brokeback Mountain", made into a very successful film- speak of ranchers and cowboys, of Indians and saloon waitresses, of difficult friendships and family disputes in which rancor It comes from afar and love is harsh. The passion for this place shows its inhabitants in all their vulnerability, as is the case of Ray, an old man who finally decides to tell his granddaughter the family secrets, or the story of the young couple of pioneers who tried to carry out their farm at the beginning of the 20th century, when Wyoming was still a land of hostile nature, until reaching the macabre story of a tree planted in the middle of the desert that sees all the travelers who pass by die. In these stories, which are brought together for the first time in Spanish, there are all the elements that once built the legend of the Far West, but the irony of the author, her ability to see the depths of these apparently hardened men and women , give a twist to the myth: this is how the usual western and its arid environment, ungenerous with its people, become the perfect setting for great literature.