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Doce cuentos peregrinos

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Un gran libro de cuentos, lleno de sorpresas. Lo maravilloso es darse cuenta de cómo lo más simple y absurdo puede convertirse en algo mágico o trascendental, como si descubriéramos el envés de la realidad a través de la mirada de García Márquez.

García Márquez nos sumerge en un mundo ya pocas veces explorado': el espíritu humano, con historias de la vida diaria y frases envolventes nos cuenta, nos narra y de la mano nos lleva a conocer lugares y personajes típicos de nuestro mundo, pero con un toque tan mágico y tan complaciente, como solo el sabe regalar.

Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez continues spinning his own brand of magical realism into captivating tales with his Doce cuentos peregrinos. The stories border on reality and the unconcious, giving them a "sonambulo" feel. They are also very cinemographic and five have been made into movies and a TV series. Anyone who has ever seen "Milagro en Roma" must read "La santa"--the story on which the movie is based. This collection is a must-have!

la forma de escribir de garcia marquez hace que cada cuento se convierta en una historia llena de magia su escritura llega a cualquier persona dejando entrevisto que que por algo fue premio nobel exelente y facinante

Marquez has crafted an exquisite sequence of short stories about Latin Americans alienated it Europe. The dream like sequences create an evocative picture of their inevitable alienation. They reach out and touch the reader, who inevitable finds parallels with his own life, whatever his circumstances

A man carries the perfectly preserved body of his daughter around in a carrying case. A woman whose car breaks down by the side of the road wants to use the telephone, but finds herself committed to a mental institution. A young woman, newly married, pricks her finger on a rose, and begins bleeding to death. A young couple spend the night in a hotel where a horrific murder took place long before. Twelve remarkable stories that begin in a low key, almost believable manner and quickly go off into another dimension. A magical dimension. The endings are unexpected, haunting, and often tragic.

I won't tell you how any of these stories turn out, you'll have to read them. There are twelve, of varying length, and every one of them is brilliant. You will not only enjoy these stories but they will stay with you. Despite my limited command of Spanish, I found the stories quite readable, lucid, written in a simple, spare style, with great economy of language. What a gift!

Marquez is a master story-teller. I recommend this book very highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.

This collection of short stories is a perfect introduction to the work of the master writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Each is finely crafted and has an intensity that only a author of his genius would be able to contain within the confines of this genre.Each story is a gem of literature.

Excellent alternative. I wanted a used book of short stories in Spanish to use in my class and this book is the perfect material I needed at a VERY low price.

Doce Cuentos Peregrinos by Gabriel García Márquez

This is a first edition by Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1992. The One Hundred Years of Solitude author spent 18 years writing, losing them, and writing them again, this collection of 12 short stories. Contents: immigration. Tells the story with radiant precision of the exiled politician's new home. Or searches Rome in a Rome where it differs from his nostalgic labyrinth. Anecdotes, characters, and objects inhabit his stories. Cesare Zavattini argues with the author. Jorge Luis Borges makes a presence in a story that he may have dreamed. Pablo Neruda wakes up with his pillow's monogram on his face. Someone hides as a trophy the walking cane that belonged to Amé Césaire, the poet from Martinique.

This a short collection of stories, based on journalistic facts, but redeemed from their mortal condition by the author's creativity.

If you are a fan, you'll enjoy these stories like the most beautiful memory of a journey.

He vivido en siete paises, dieciocho ciudades, tengo seis profesiones y mas mudanzas de las que me acuerdo. a donde voy "doce cuentos peregrinos" peregrinan conmigo. Gabo y yo hasta el fin del mundo.