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Mil y una Muertes (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Sergio Ramírez (Author)
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January 1, 2009
In these pages the photographer Castellón, one of the most attractive and enigmatic characters of recent Hispanic American literature, lives and dies. Through his camera lens the reader will see the fraudulent imitation of our nationalities, the defeated fantasy of ideals and utopias, and the concurrence of genius and misery in diverse settings, from the port of Greytown in Nicaragua, with its marble palaces in the middle of the jungle, to ghetto in Warsaw and the monastery of the Cartuja in Mallorca. In this magnificent novel the deep echoes of defeat, an inevitable companion of all human causes, are clear.

Description in Spanish: En las páginas de esta novela nace, vive y muere (al menos por el momento) el fotógrafo Castellón, uno de los personajes más atractivos y enigmáticos de la literatura hispanoamericana reciente. El lector verá a través del ojo de su cámara la contrahechura alucinante de nuestras nacionalidades —puro botín en la rebatinga de los poderosos—, la fantasía derrotada de los ideales y las utopías, la más persistente de ellas el canal por Nicaragua, y la convocatoria del genio y la miseria en diversos escenarios, desde el puerto de Greytown en Nicaragua, con sus palacios de mármol en medio de la selva, al ghetto de Varsovia y al monasterio de la Cartuja en Mallorca. El mercenario Walker, el rey Mosco, la reina Victoria, Napoleón el pequeño, el archiduque Luis Salvador y su extravagante cortejo, Flaubert, Turguéniev y George Sand, sin olvidar a Chopin, se dan cita aquí, junto con la pluma envidiosa del escandaloso Vargas Vila y la prosa florida de Rubén Darío. En esta magnífica novela resuenan graves las notas de la derrota, compañera inevitable de toda empresa humana.


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Product Details

  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Santillana USA /Alfaguara Juvenil (January 1, 2009)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 9707700459
  • ISBN-13: 978-9707700451
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,701,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars ¿Cuentos quieres, niña bella?, May 1, 2005
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Cinco estrellas. Esta prosa tan sabrosa deja en los labios la miel, y a más de un nicaragüense le picará en el corazón. Después de leer esta novela me siento más nica y más universal. La novela nos hace agua la boca al darnos datos históricos tan curiosos (y algún que otro chisme sabrosón) que nos obliga a inquirir más e indagar en los los libros de historia para aclarar dudas o confirmar datos. Sí, esta novela es histórica simplemente porque es toda historia. Mentira, verdad? No seamos ilusos. Recordemos que, alguna o muchas veces, un Robert Graves, una Mary Renault y hasta un Menéndez Pidal pueden exagerar, embellecer, e incluso falsificar la "verdad" o lo que llamamos "Historia." No le vamos a negar a Sergio Ramírez el derecho que tiene a esta licencia poética. Se lo ha ganado a pulso con el arte erudito de su ingenio, con su convicción y con acción. Su propio personaje de Castellón ya lo ha inmortalizado en su cámara obscura con su destello de luz. El mismo Sergio Ramírez --aún en vida-- es ya parte de nuestra historia política y literaria.
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