Sobre el orador

In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all. Presented in a lively new translation, the book addresses the fears of growing older and argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated―or altogether mistaken.

"Son muchos años los que este urbanista y escritor (¿o al revés?) ha dedicado al asunto, en medio de una vasta obra especializada. Sus libros me proponen siempre la misma pregunta, ¿hay algo que no haya leído Almandoz en cuanto al imaginario de la ciudad desplegado en la literatura venezolana? Seguramente, pero cuando creo estar a punto de reconocer un vacío se completa páginas después, y es que trabaja con la parsimonia y la prolijidad del investigador para quien todo puede ser de interés para ampliar, circundar, iluminar el objeto propuesto, y así, con una prosa detallada (y...

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

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Un hombre ve a una persona idéntica a un viejo amigo de la juventud lo cual lo hace reflexionar sobre la nostalgia, la amistad y el pasado.