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El Portero (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Series: Coleccion Alacran Azul
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780897295604
Publisher: Ediciones Universal
Published: Jun 12 2023
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.30
Language: Spanish
Reinaldo Arenas nació en HolguÃn, Oriente, Cuba en 1943. El 7 de
diciembre de 1990 puso fin a su vida, responsabilizando a Fidel Castro
de su decisión, en carta testamento que escribió. Es considerado uno
de los mejores escritores cubanos del siglo XX.
El Portero fue el acontecimiento literario en Francia en 1988.
La novela cuenta las insólitas aventura de un portero de un edificio de
lujo en Manhattan, New York. Fue de las tres novelas finalistas del
Premio Medicis y y de ella escribieron en periódicos como Le Monde,
Liberation, Le Figaro, Nuevo DÃa, El Nuevo Herald y otros. La Novelle Observateur describió la novela: Arenas ha creado un mundo
encantado pleno de realidades sórdicas y de un soberbio delirio barroco
.
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Reinaldo Arenas was born in HolguÃn, Oriente, Cuba in 1943. On
December 7, 1990, he ended his life and in a letter he left behind, he
held Fidel Castro responsible for this final decision. He is considered
one of the best Cuban writers of the twentieth century.
El Portero was the literary event in France in 1988. The novel
tells the unusual adventures of a doorman in a luxury building in
Manhattan, New York. This novel was one of the three finalist of the
Medicis Prize and which was reviewed in newspapers such as Le
Monde, Liberation, Le Figaro, Nuevo DÃa, El Nuevo Herald and
others. The Novelle Observateur described the novel: Arenas has
created an enchanted world full of strange realities and a superb baroque
delirium.
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