The surprise in the story comes at the end, when the narrator reveals that “over half of all the novels and stories published in the English language” are now created by Adolph Knipe on the Great Automatic Grammatizator. The conclusion of the story is written in first-person, as a struggling writer listens to his nine hungry children cry
Roald Dahl: El gran gramatizador automático —Bueno, Knipe, muchacho. Ya está todo acabado. Le he llamado simplemente para decirle que pienso que ha hecho un buen trabajo. Adolph Knipe estaba de pie, inmĂłvil, ante la mesa del despacho del señor Bohlen. No parecĂa en absoluto entusiasmado. —¿No está usted contento? —Claro que sĂ, señor Bohlen.
This new selection of Roald Dahl’s short stories has been specially chosen as an introduction for teenagers into the adult writing of one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Subtle and bizarre, ironic and amusing, macabre and often grotesque, in every sense these tales provide a superb first step into the unexpected world of Roald Dahl.
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