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portada Viajes Con Un Mapa En Blanco / Traveling with a Blank Map (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Collection
Hispánica
Year
2018
Language
Spanish
Pages
216
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.8x15.5 cm
Weight
0.39 kg.
ISBN13
9788420419619
Edited in
España
Edition No.
001

Viajes Con Un Mapa En Blanco / Traveling with a Blank Map (in Spanish)

Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Author) · Alfaguara · Paperback

Viajes Con Un Mapa En Blanco / Traveling with a Blank Map (in Spanish) - Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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Synopsis "Viajes Con Un Mapa En Blanco / Traveling with a Blank Map (in Spanish)"

Una colección de ensayos sobre el arte de la novela. Por el ganador del Premio IMPAC y el Premio Alfaguara de Novela. Los seres humanos, sostiene este libro, no hemos inventado la novela: es la novela la que nos ha inventado a nosotros. Pero qué nos dan las novelas que no nos puede dar ninguna otra forma narrativa? Qué lugar ocupan en nuestras vidas como individuos y como sociedades? Por qué son, según Vásquez, una manera irremplazable de investigarnos a nosotros mismos, y cómo llevan a cabo sus sortilegios?. De Cervantes a Conrad, de Tolstoi a Vargas Llosa, de Proust a Camus, estos ensayos proponen un elogio de ese género proteico y también, entre líneas, un lamento por su situación presente en un mundo que se le ha vuelto hostil. «Un novelista que escribe ensayos, y en particular si esos ensayos hablan del arte de la novela, es como un náufrago que manda coordenadas: quiere decirles a los demás cómo pueden encontrarlo. También, por supuesto, quiere encontrarse a sí mismo; en otras palabras, saber cómo debe leer las novelas que escribe. El ensayo es una exploración, una tentativa, una averiguación, y el novelista escribe para descubrir y trazar los límites de sus conocimientos y la forma de sus certezas. En ese sentido, podría decir uno, es un género confesional. -Juan Gabriel Vásquez ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the IMPAC Award and the Premio Alfaguara, Vasquez offers here a collection of essays about the art of the novel. In the book, he argues that we have not invented the novel: it is the novel that has invented us. But what do novels offer that no other narrative form can give us? What place do they occupy in our lives as individuals and as societies? From Cervantes to Conrad, from Tolstoy to Vargas Llosa, from Proust to Camus, these essays propose a praise of that ever-changing genre and, a sort of grieving for its present situation in a world that has become hostile. "A novelist who writes essays, particularly if those essays speak about the art of the novel, is like a castaway who sends back its coordinates as if wanting to tell others how they can find him. The essay is like an evaluation, and the novelist writes to discover and trace the limits of his own knowledge. In that sense, we could say it is a confessional genre. -Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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(Bogotá, 1973) is the author of the short story collections Los amantes de Todos los Santos and Canciones para el incendio (Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Award) and the novels Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer (Alfaguara Award, Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze Award, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Las reputaciones (Royal Spanish Academy Award, Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Literary Award, Casa da América Latina Award in Lisbon), La forma de las ruinas (Casino da Póvoa Literary Award) and Volver la vista atrás (Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Award). Vásquez has also published two collections of literary essays, El arte de la distorsión and Viajes con un mapa en blanco, and a brief biography of Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. He has translated works by Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, and E. M. Forster, among others. He has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award twice. In 2012, he won the Roger Caillois Award in Paris for his body of work. In 2016, he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic, and in 2018 he received the Order of Isabel la Católica. His books are published in 30 languages. He is a columnist for the Spanish newspaper El País.
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