Una Historia Particular / A Unique Story - Paperback
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"Life the four strings on a violin, life has only four storylines: you're born, you grow up, reproduce, and die. They weave our personal histories, a web of dreams and passions marked over time by the whims of fate." A child rides a merry-go-round for the first time, never imagining that the mechanical up and down movement, the cyclical repetitions, foretell the pace of his life going forward. Music, songs, books, dogs, cars, the sea - always the sea - are intertwined with dreams, friends, love, pain, and the moments of beauty that make up every life. Fiction and autobiography merge in the latest book by Manuel Vicent, one of the most insightful chroniclers of our times. His dynamic, sensory and nostalgic account is an evocative and literary meditation on recent Spanish history, existence and the passage of time. It is a story of joy and upheaval, happiness and rebellion, dreams fulfilled and bitter defeats.
Una Historia Particular / A Unique Story - Paperback
$19.95
by Manuel Vicent (Author)
Un relato autobiográfico que es también la historia del siglo XX a través de la mirada inteligente, evocadora y vitalista de Manuel Vicent
«Su literatura se asemeja más al fuelle de un acordeón, que pliega y despliega el tiempo para crear, con finísimas variaciones, una misma melodía: la memoria fermentada. Arte tejido en el telar de los recuerdos [...]. Son 200 páginas de emoción . -Paco Cerdà, Babelia
«La vida, como el violín, solo tiene cuatro cuerdas: naces, creces, te reproduces y mueres. Con estos mimbres se teje cada historia personal con toda una maraña de sueños y pasiones que el tiempo macera a medias con el azar .
"Life the four strings on a violin, life has only four storylines: you're born, you grow up, reproduce, and die. They weave our personal histories, a web of dreams and passions marked over time by the whims of fate." A child rides a merry-go-round for the first time, never imagining that the mechanical up and down movement, the cyclical repetitions, foretell the pace of his life going forward. Music, songs, books, dogs, cars, the sea - always the sea - are intertwined with dreams, friends, love, pain, and the moments of beauty that make up every life. Fiction and autobiography merge in the latest book by Manuel Vicent, one of the most insightful chroniclers of our times. His dynamic, sensory and nostalgic account is an evocative and literary meditation on recent Spanish history, existence and the passage of time. It is a story of joy and upheaval, happiness and rebellion, dreams fulfilled and bitter defeats.
Author Biography
Manuel Vicent nacido en Vilavella (Castellón) y Premio Lletraferit de Cultura Valenciana 2021, ha publicado en Alfaguara novelas como Tranvía a la Malvarrosa (1994 y 2014), Jardín de Villa Valeria (1996) --ambas recogidas junto con Contra Paraíso en el volumen Otros días, otros juegos (2002)--, Pascua y naranjas (1993), Son de Mar (Premio Alfaguara 1999), La novia de Matisse (2000), Cuerpos sucesivos (2003), Verás el cielo abierto (2005), León de ojos verdes (2008), Aguirre, el magnífico (2011), El azar de la mujer rubia (2013), Desfile de ciervos (2015), La regata (2017), Ava en la noche (2020) y Retrato de una mujer moderna (2022). También es autor de la antología Los mejores relatos (1997) y de las colecciones de artículos Nadie muere la víspera (2004), Las horas paganas (1998), Viajes, fábulas y otras travesías (2006), Póquer de ases (2009), Mitologías (2012), Los últimos mohicanos (2016), Antitauromaquia (2017), con ilustraciones de El Roto, y Lecturas con daiquiri (2019).
Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.3 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: November 12, 2024
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