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Las Cartas del Boom / Boom Letters
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Las Cartas del Boom / Boom Letters

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La obra de García Márquez es incomprensible sin la de Cortázar, y la de Cortázar es incomprensible sin la de Vargas Llosa, y se establece toda una red que corresponde a algo muy real. Porque yo sé que cada uno de nosotros es muy consciente de lo que están haciendo los demás.' -Carlos Fuentes, 1968
«Este libro reúne, por primera vez, la correspondencia entre los cuatro principales novelistas del Boom latinoamericano: Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez y Vargas Llosa. Los dos últimos recibieron el Premio Nobel, y los dos primeros lo merecían; a nadie hubiera sorprendido que lo obtuvieran. Esta conversación entre cuatro amigos brillantes y exitosos nos ofrece un acceso sin precedentes a sus relaciones personales y colectivas, con todos sus encuentros y desencuentros, y nos abre una ventana privilegiada a la literatura y la política latinoamericanas, especialmente durante un periodo crucial de su historia moderna, entre 1959 y 1975.
' Las cartas del Boom narra el momento de máximo auge de este cuarteto, en el que los creadores parecían empezar a escribir menos solos para tocar en conjunto como parte de una misma literatura, y ahonda en ese reconocimiento y esa regeneración de un pasado en común.
' Encontrar cuatro grandes escritores en un contexto histórico casi sin paralelo, comunicándose durante varios años para dialogar sobre novela, literatura, historia latinoamericana, sus propias biografías y la dinámica de sus ideas dentro de ese contexto, es absolutamente único. Las páginas de este libro cuentan esa historia.'. - Los editores
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"García Márquez' work is unfathomable without Cortázar's, and Cortázar's is unfathomable without Vargas Llosa's, and an entire network related to something very real is established. Because I know each one of us is keenly aware of what the others are doing." --Carlos Fuentes, 1968

> "Boom Letters chronicles this quartet's highest peak, when the artists seemed to start writing less on their own and play together as part of the same literature, exploring this appreciation and the regeneration of a common past.
"Finding four great writers in an almost unparalleled historical setting--communicating over several years to discuss novels, literature, Latin American history, their own biographies, and the dynamics of their ideas within such context--is absolutely unique. These pages tell their story." --The editors
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ISBN/GTIN978-607-38-2914-4
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date19/09/2023
LanguageSpanish
SizeWidth 145 mm, Height 215 mm, Thickness 33 mm
Weight386 g
Article no.26504761
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A46833015
Product groupBU117
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