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La ciudad y los perros (edición del cincuentenario) (Edición conmemorativa de la RAE y la ASALE)
Definitive and author-revised edition of one of the best Spanish novels of the 20th century. Prepared by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.In 1962, La ciudad y los perros received the Biblioteca Breve Prize and a few months late...
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La ciudad y los perros (edición del cincuentenario) (Edición conmemorativa de la RAE y la ASALE)
Definitive and author-revised edition of one of the best Spanish novels of the 20th century. Prepared by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. In 1962, La ciudad y los perros received the Biblioteca Breve Prize and a few months later it was published after circumventing Franco's censorship. Thus began the literary journey of this work, considered one of the best Spanish novels of the 20th century. The Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language pay tribute to the academician and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa with a new edition of the book that marked the beginning of his literary career. La ciudad y los perros, translated into more than thirty languages, is set in the Leoncio Prado Military School. The protagonists of the novel, a group of young people who are «educated» under an implacable and violent military discipline, learn to survive in an environment where racial prejudices and differences between social and economic classes are deeply rooted; where everyone pretends to be someone they are not and the transgression of established rules seems to be the only way out. The edition is completed with critical studies by Marco Martos, José Miguel Oviedo, Víctor García de la Concha, Darío Villanueva, Javier Cercas, Carlos Garayar, John King and Efraín Kristal. Critics have said about the collection of commemorative editions: «These commemorative editions sponsored by academic institutions of the highest rank are welcome for many reasons. Editions that, due to their popular prices, and now that good books have become a luxury item, facilitate public access to authors who, paradoxically, are not -classics- of Spanish literature (ancient or modern) but are still, for some, great unknowns even today.» «The reading of such a discontinuous story allows its reader to strive to bring together and relate the different characters and scenarios drawn in the book, a complicated journey that brings us closer to the heavy atmosphere of the military school of the time. And it does so from the point of view of a spectator as curious as the young Vargas Llosa, confronted (at that time) with the unpleasant societies spewed out by certain bossy regimes, especially violent throughout the continent for decades and decades of endless pain.» |
Editorial: LENGUA VIVA Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 768 Empastado: Tapa Dura Idioma: Español |
