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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Spanish
Publication date
November 9, 2010
Pages
151
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307743459
ISBN-10
0307743454
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.40 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âÂÂÿQué hago yo encaramado en esta percha de honor, yo que siempre he considerado los discursos como el más terrorÃÂfico de los compromisos humanos?â âÂÂGabriel GarcÃÂa Márquez
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Los textos que Gabriel GarcÃÂa Márquez ha reunido en este libro fueron escritos por el autor con la intención de ser leÃÂdos por él mismo en público, ante una audiencia, y recorren prácticamente toda su vida, desde el primero, que escribe a los diecisiete años para despedir a sus compañeros del curso superior en Zipaquirá, hasta el que lee ante las Academias de la Lengua y los reyes de España al cumplir ochenta años.
àààààààààààEstos discursos del premio Nobel nos ayudan a comprender más profundamente su vida y nos desvelan sus obsesiones fundamentales como escritor y ciudadano: su fervorosa vocación por la literatura, la pasión por el periodismo, su inquietud ante el desastre ecológico que se avecina, su propuesta de simplificar la gramática, los problemas de su tierra colombiana o el recuerdo emocionado de amigos escritores como Julio Cortázar o ÃÂlvaro Mutis, entre otros muchos.
àààààààààààEl lector tiene entra sus manos el complemento indispensable a una obra narrativa que nos seguirá hablando en un largo porvenir.
****
âÂÂWhat am I doing here on this perch of honor, when I have always considered speeches the most terrifying of human obligations?âÂÂ
ÃÂ
The speeches that Gabriel GarcÃÂa Márquez has gathered in this collection were written by the author with the intention of being read by him before an audience, and span the course of nearly his entire life; from the first, a farewell written at seventeen to his fellow students at Zipaquirá, to his appearance before the Spanish-language Academies and the kings of Spain on his eightieth birthday.
Combined, these speeches provide a more profound understanding of the life of this Nobel Prize winner, revealing his fundamental creative and civil obsessions: his intense aptitude for literature and writing; his passion for journalism; his concerns over looming environmental dangers; his proposal for the simplification of grammar; the problems facing his beloved Colombian homeland; and the loving memory of fellow writers like Julio Cortázar and ÃÂlvaro Mutis, among many others.
In Yo no vengo a decir un discurso (I did not come to give a speech), the reader holds in his/her hands the essential complement to a body of work that will continue speaking to us for a long time to come.
ÃÂ
Los textos que Gabriel GarcÃÂa Márquez ha reunido en este libro fueron escritos por el autor con la intención de ser leÃÂdos por él mismo en público, ante una audiencia, y recorren prácticamente toda su vida, desde el primero, que escribe a los diecisiete años para despedir a sus compañeros del curso superior en Zipaquirá, hasta el que lee ante las Academias de la Lengua y los reyes de España al cumplir ochenta años.
àààààààààààEstos discursos del premio Nobel nos ayudan a comprender más profundamente su vida y nos desvelan sus obsesiones fundamentales como escritor y ciudadano: su fervorosa vocación por la literatura, la pasión por el periodismo, su inquietud ante el desastre ecológico que se avecina, su propuesta de simplificar la gramática, los problemas de su tierra colombiana o el recuerdo emocionado de amigos escritores como Julio Cortázar o ÃÂlvaro Mutis, entre otros muchos.
àààààààààààEl lector tiene entra sus manos el complemento indispensable a una obra narrativa que nos seguirá hablando en un largo porvenir.
****
âÂÂWhat am I doing here on this perch of honor, when I have always considered speeches the most terrifying of human obligations?âÂÂ
ÃÂ
The speeches that Gabriel GarcÃÂa Márquez has gathered in this collection were written by the author with the intention of being read by him before an audience, and span the course of nearly his entire life; from the first, a farewell written at seventeen to his fellow students at Zipaquirá, to his appearance before the Spanish-language Academies and the kings of Spain on his eightieth birthday.
Combined, these speeches provide a more profound understanding of the life of this Nobel Prize winner, revealing his fundamental creative and civil obsessions: his intense aptitude for literature and writing; his passion for journalism; his concerns over looming environmental dangers; his proposal for the simplification of grammar; the problems facing his beloved Colombian homeland; and the loving memory of fellow writers like Julio Cortázar and ÃÂlvaro Mutis, among many others.
In Yo no vengo a decir un discurso (I did not come to give a speech), the reader holds in his/her hands the essential complement to a body of work that will continue speaking to us for a long time to come.
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