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Viajes Con Un Mapa En Blanco / Traveling with a Blank Map

Viajes Con Un Mapa En Blanco / Traveling with a Blank Map

          
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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

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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
About the Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1973) es autor de la colección de relatos Los amantes de Todos los Santos y de las novelas Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer, Las reputaciones y La forma de las ruinas. Ha publicado también una recopilación de ensayos literarios, El arte de la distorsión, y una breve biografía de Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. Sus libros se publican actualmente en veintiocho lenguas y han merecido, entre otros, el Premio Alfaguara, el English Pen Award, el Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze, el IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, el Premio Real Academia Española, el Premio Casa de Amèrica Latina de Lisboa y el Premio Roger Caillois por el conjunto de su obra, otorgado anteriormente a escritores como Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes y Ricardo Piglia. Ha traducido obras de Joseph Conrad y Victor Hugo, entre otros, y en 2016 fue nombrado Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de la República francesa.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788420419619
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfaguara
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 147 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8420419613
  • Publisher Date: 29 May 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 385 gr


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