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En 1845 Thoreau abandona la casa familiar de Concord y se instala en la cabaña que ha construido junto a la laguna de Walden. Pero no se marcha a los bosques para «jugar a la vida», sino para «vivirla intensamente de principio a fin». A partir de esa experiencia escribe uno de los clásicos fundamentales del ensayo moderno.
Walden es tanto un experimento literario sin precedentes como un manual para la buena vida: un libro escrito contra toda servidumbre y a favor de la felicidad como única riqueza del ser humano. Walden es una defensa de la vida libre y salvaje, así como una crítica feroz de la sociedad y sus imposiciones, que apenas han variado desde aquella fecha. Walden es un cuestionamiento radical y directo de la institución del trabajo como adocenamiento y del mercado como único dios, así como una lúcida defensa de la simplificación de la vida y del camino que nos lleva a perseguir su esencia y sus placeres cotidianos. Walden es una reflexión sobre la necesidad de preservar tanto la naturaleza y el planeta como el meollo de nuestra propia existencia individual e irreductible. Walden habla de lagunas salvajes y hombres sabios, alces y shakespeares, esclavos huidos y trabajadores sonámbulos, las montañas de Nueva Inglaterra y el Bhagavad Gita, la belleza del fuego hogareño y la Gran Nevada, el silbido devastador del ferrocarril y el recóndito ulular del búho, la erudición de los indios Massasoit y la banalidad de los eruditos de Harvard, la belleza absoluta de la soledad y la importancia inconmensurable de la amistad, el bienestar que exhiben las marmotas y el malestar que aqueja a la mayoría de los seres humanos. Según el propio Thoreau, «Walden es un libro escrito para esa mayoría de hombres que está descontenta con su vida y con los tiempos que le ha tocado vivir, pero que podría mejorarlos. Y también para aquéllos en apariencia ricos, pero que en realidad han acumulado cosas inútiles y no saben muy bien qué hacer con ellas».
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Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.
Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond.
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