Name: Conferencia Sobre la Lluvia (in Spanish)
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Author: Juan Villoro
ISBN: 9789560008282

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Conferencia Sobre la Lluvia (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Villoro

Publisher

Lom

Year

2016

Language

Spanish

Pages

ISBN13

9789560008282

Edited in

Chile

Synopsis "Conferencia Sobre la Lluvia (in Spanish)"

Un bibliotecario debe dar una conferencia sobre la relación entre la lluvia y la poesía. Todo marcha sobre ruedas hasta que se da cuenta de que ha extraviado sus notas para la conferencia. Cultivando el venerable y riesgoso recurso de la improvisación, supera el contratiempo no sin baches discursivos ni sin digresiones que, sin embargo, resultan en un literario boceto sobre sí mismo: su trabajo, sus amores, sus vicios, sus obsesiones. Y, por cierto, sin perder ni por un segundo el fulgor que anima su monólogo: la lluvia y los poetas que la domaron en versos y en memorias. Al final de su charla, una sorprendente presencia en el público engalana esta historia espléndida rebosante de poesía.

Juan Villoro

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Writer and journalist, Juan Villoro was born in Mexico City in 1956. He has been a professor at UNAM, and a visiting professor at the universities of Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, as well as at the New Journalism Foundation, created by Gabriel García Márquez. He is a columnist for Reforma (Mexico), has written for international media such as The New York Times (US), El País (Spain) and El Mercurio (Chile), among others. He was the director of La Jornada Semanal.

He studied Sociology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University-Iztapalapa. He is a doctor honoris causa by the Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo and by the Metropolitan Autonomous University. Since 2014 he is a member of El Colegio Nacional.

In 2012 he received the Ibero-American José Donoso Award and in 2018 the Manuel Rojas Award, both awarded in Chile, for his body of work. Among the recognitions he has received in Mexico is the Mazatlán Literature Award for his book of literary essays Personal Effects and the Xavier Villaurrutia Award for his book of stories The House Loses.

He received in Spain the Herralde Award for his novel The Witness; in Argentina the ACE Award for his play Philosophy of Life and in Cuba the José María Arguedas Award for his novel Reef. His journalistic work has been recognized with the King of Spain International Journalism Award, City of Barcelona Award, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán International Journalism Award, as well as the Fernando Benítez Tribute of the International Book Fair, and the Award for Journalistic Excellence, granted by the Gabo Foundation (Colombia), 2022.

His novel for young people The Wild Book has sold more than one million copies.

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Ana Victoria Villarroel Tuesday, September 01, 2020
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Perfecto para leer en un viaje de tren. Es corto y agradable, se lee super rápido. Convierte el tema de la lluvia en una discusión poética.
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Humberto Varela Monday, July 15, 2024
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muy buen libro. llegoa tiempo y en buen estado.
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