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Doce cuentos peregrinos [Strange Pilgrims]

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
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Summary

En el prólogo de estos Doce cuentos peregrinos, García Márquez nos regala su explicación de por qué doce, por qué cuentos y por qué peregrinos.

En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena a su perro para llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un país caribeño, solo para descubrir que sus ambiciones políticas siguen intactas.

En estos doce relatos magistrales acerca de las vidas de latinoamericanos en Europa, García Márquez transmite la melancolía, tenacidad, pena y ambición que forma la experiencia del emigrante.

"El esfuerzo de escribir un cuento corto es tan intenso como empezar una novela. Pues en el primer párrafo de una novela hay que definir todo: estructura, tono, estilo, ritmo, longitud y a veces hasta el carácter de algún personaje. Lo demás es el placer de escribir, el más íntimo y solitario que pueda imaginarse, y si uno no se queda corrigiendo el libro por el resto de la vida es porque el mismo rigor de fierro que hace falta para empezarlo se impone para terminarlo. El cuento, en cambio, no tiene principio ni fin: fragua o no fragua. Y si no fragua, la experiencia propia y la ajena enseñan que la mayoría de las veces es más saludable empezarlo de nuevo por otro camino, o tirarlo a la basura."

El escritor John Updike ha dicho..."El cuerpo de sus cuentos está lleno de riqueza y sorpresas, y su vestido es la elocuencia. Son - la palabra es inevitable - mágicos."

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©1992 Gabriel García Márquez (P)2016 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.

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I grew up

I first read this collection newly released, more than 20 years ago. I was astonished by the freshness of it. Now I have some experience as a reader and re-reading Doce cuentos I am astonished how strangely old-fashioned they are. Not bad at all, Márquez can write splendidly, he keeps the rhythm and is utterly colourful. But the topics are somewhat inmature, somehow childish, like a wild, talented teen-ager composing mad, márquezesque stories with high level of predictability. There are some that work, but the most of them don't. Times changes and some writings stand simply outdated. Or this is only me growing too old for playfulness? Maybe.

The narrator was unnecessarily fast for me, I struggled for the first hour to keep the line. When you're a native he is surely OK.

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Me ha encantado el libro y la narracion

Me ha encantado el libro y la narracion. Merece la pena. Un acento precioso.

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muy buen libro de cuentos cortos

solo 2 o 3 cuentos no me atraparon mucho, pero en general lo disfruté mucho, ya sea cuando salía a caminar o en la cinta en el gimnasio.

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