Name: Lacrónica (in Spanish)
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Author: Martín Caparrós
ISBN: 9788494434013

Type

Physical Book

Author

Martín Caparrós

Publisher

Círculo De Tiza

Year

2015

Language

Spanish

Pages

616

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788494434013

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Lacrónica (in Spanish)"

Décadas de recorrer el mundo y preguntarse cómo contarlo. Martín Caparrós viaja de la selva boliviana donde se cuece la coca a las playas de Sri Lanka en las que los niños se venden por monedas, de los bombardeos aéreos de Belgrado a la bomba capitalista de Hong Kong, de las transexuales de Juchitán a los jirones de La Habana.
En esos y otros confines del mundo mal conocido, Caparrós construye estas piezas de un género tan antiguo como nuevo: eso que llama Lacrónica y que se ha transformado en una de las formas más fecundas de la literatura en castellano. Son historias: grandes reportajes trabajados con las herramientas del relato, de la novela, el ensayo o la poesía para encontrar maneras nuevas de contar el mundo.
Lacrónica es el resultado de 40 años de profesión de uno de los periodistas más respetados del idioma, condensados en un libro único.

Martín Caparrós

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Martín Caparrós (Buenos Aires, 1957) graduated in history in Paris, lived in Madrid and New York, directed book and cooking magazines, traveled half the world, translated Voltaire, Shakespeare, and Quevedo, received the Planeta Prize Latin America, the King of Spain award and the Guggenheim fellowship. At Anagrama, the novels To whom it may concern: "Necessary. It makes the ground tremble a little while we read it. And once closed, the ground continues to tremble" (Juan Bonilla, El Mundo); The Living (Herralde Novel Award 2011): "Dazzling. Major and definitive work" (Joaquín Marco, El Mundo); I Ate: "A feast of digression and style" (J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País); "Honest and coherent, politically incorrect and alien to verbosity, to cliché or to easy ideological wink" (Iñaki Ezquerra, El Correo); and Echeverría; the chronicles of One Moon: "The best current chronicler of Latin America: a superb interviewer, a traveler endowed with encyclopedic culture and a fine irony" (Roberto Herrscher, La Vanguardia); and Against Change. A hypervoyage to the climate apocalypse: "A strong reagent for sensitive souls or friends of the politically correct" (Leila Guerriero, El País); "Convinces as much as it seduces" (E. Paz Soldán, La Tercera, Chile); and the essay The Hunger: "Much more than an essay, much more than a novel, because Caparrós uses literature to accompany us to a hell made of a reality that is often only given distracted attention" (Roberto Saviano); "A book that will surely be important. A book that was missing" (Agustín Fernández Mallo, El Mundo)

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