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A lyrical novel following an idealistic student who explores the
power of literature in Franco's Spain. It's the summer of 1963 and
Leon Egea, a cocky nineteen-year-old student and aspiring author,
has just finished his first year studying literature at the
University of Granada and is starting a summer job as an
encyclopedia salesman. Leon, infuriated by the injustices in
Spanish society under the Franco dictatorship, comes to find that
literature can speak the truth when the reality is clouded. In this
coming-of-age novel by renowned Spanish writer Luis Garcia Montero,
Leon discovers that, under the repressive Franco dictatorship,
people, places, and events are not always what they seem. But
literature, words, and names open paths to discovery, both personal
and political. Through lyrical fast-paced narrative, Someone Speaks
Your Name explores literature as a foundation for understanding
human relationships, national character, discrete differences
between right and wrong, and for pursuing the path forward. As
Leon's professor tells him: "Learning to write is learning to see."
Desde la perspectiva que da la cuarentena b"como sugiere el poema
que abre el librob" y al hilo de una introspeccion nada
complaciente, La intimidad de la serpiente se presenta como un
repaso biografico, moral y sentimental de un sujeto poetico en el
que el lector no tarda en reconocerse. En ese examen de conciencia
brillan a veces con potente luz los destellos de la infancia o las
iluminaciones de los ideales juveniles, pero los poemas se centran
en los borrones y claudicaciones, intimos y colectivos, que la
Historia inmediata le ha dejado en herencia. Son versos que nos
hablan tambien del presente, del desajuste y las contradicciones
que siente el poeta ante los nuevos tiempos y sus valores, y de la
necesidad de conciliar convicciones y renuncias para concebir B+un
destino soportableB; . La serpiente del arbol del bien y del mal se
siente abandonada entre gentes que no quieren morder la manzana de
los suenos.Como contrapunto a las composiciones de brillante
reflexion civil, aparece otra serie de poemas mas breves en los que
el lenguaje se convierte en argumento primordial. Unos y otros
demuestran, en cualquier caso, el arte de Garcia Montero para
nombrar sentimientos complejos mediante objetos y escenas
familiares (ese B+idioma dormido de las cosasB; ) y su apuesta por
adentrarse en una expresion menos directa, donde la deslumbrante
densidad de alusiones y sentidos sirve como nunca para relatar y
relatarnos nuestra historia privada y colectiva.
Luis Garcia Montero (Granada, 1958) is one of the most read and
influential Spanish writers today. He is an essayist, fiction
writer, journalist, professor of Spanish Literature at the
University of Granada, and, principally, a poet. He has received
numerous important honors, like the National Poetry Prize (1994)
and the National Critic's Prize (2003), both in Spain, and the
Poets of the Latin World Prize (2010), in Mexico. He has published
eleven books of poetry, represented in The World So Often, his
first anthology in English. Luis Garcia Montero's poetry has
commonly been considered - even by the author himself - as realist,
yet this is a misinterpretation. His poetic subject doesn't try to
trap the reader in an illusory world offered up as natural, but
rather to break with the automatic perception of things and facts,
and so avoid catharsis. What's crucial here is the use of a
language that does not try to be transparent, a simple instrument
of communication, and that risks its neck to be noticed. It's a
language that is both reflection and matter, and thus, has the
agency to change things, the capacity to transform. Moreover, this
language is not limited to the lyrical tradition, it doesn't
discriminate against words in any way, it becomes democratized. By
combining prosaism and tropological density, it searches for a
discourse with a greater power of representation and participation.
In short, Garcia Montero's work achieves a balance between
sentimental rigor and intellectual outpouring, rejects solipsism,
and goes deeper into dialogical poetry.
El gran libro de la poesia en castellano, un Bestseller de cientos
de miles de ejemplares vendidos desde el ano 1929, Las Mil Mejores
Poesias de la Lengua Castellana "ya es un clasico de todas las
bibliotecas" (La revista Historia de Iberia Vieja). Esta antologia
contiene la mejor poesia espanola e hispano-americana, seleccionada
por los poetas e intelectuales del 27, desde los origenes de la
metrica castellana hasta nuestros dias. Las mejores poesias de los
mas renombrados poetas del castellano. Es una obra indispensable
para los amantes del verso y la poesia. Presentacion del Arte
Poetica Castellana y edicion del celebre critico literario Juan
Bautista Bergua. Introduccion por el poetaLuis Garcia Montero.
Prologo por Helios Bergua, Editor de Ediciones Ibericas 1991-2010.
Coleccion clasica de ocho siglos de poesia espanola e
hispano-americana. Ediciones Ibericas y Clasicos Bergua fue fundada
en 1927 por Juan Bautista Bergua, editor, critico literario de
literatura clasica y celebre autor de una gran coleccion de obras
de la historia de las religiones filosofias del mundo. Los libros
de Ediciones Ibericas, con sus traducciones, prologos, resumenes y
anotaciones, son fundamentales para el entendimiento de las obras
mas importantes de la antiguedad. La "Coleccion La Critica
Literaria" ofrece lo mejor de la literatura universal.
LaCriticaLiteraria.com es el portal al mundo de la literatura
clasica, la religion, la mitologia, la poesia y la filosofia.
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