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UNA BIOGRAF A DE GUERRA.
Un libro imprescindible para comprender la mirada literaria de Arturo P rez-Reverte.
«Camin por un mundo en guerra intentando comprender. No me lo contaron. Estuve all , y esto es lo que vi. Durante veinti n a os como reportero de guerra, Arturo P rez-Reverte vivi en primera l nea los conflictos m s cruentos del ltimo tercio del siglo XX. Su experiencia en escenarios b licos de todo el mundo marc su vida y dej huella en su posterior obra literaria. Con el tiempo, el antiguo reportero fue configurando una biograf a de guerra que es, adem s, uno de los relatos m s extraordinarios del periodismo en lengua espa ola. Este libro re ne, en orden cronol gico, una selecci n de cr nicas y reportajes escritos en los setenta y los ochenta, a los que se a aden los art culos publicados en las ltimas d cadas sobre conflictos pasados y presentes, dignidad y cobard a, verdad y manipulaci n. En estas p ginas compartimos la memoria de un hombre que estuvo donde muy pocos quer an estar y cont lo que muchos prefieren olvidar. El autor afirma en el pr logo: «La guerra se queda en tu cabeza y ya no te abandona jam s. No son solo nombres y rostros. Tambi n los lugares retornan con la misma terquedad: Mostar, Sarajevo, Vukovar, Beirut, Malabo, Kassala, Managua, Yamena, Paso de la Yegua, Jartum, Bucarest, Nairobi, El Aai n, Bagdad, Luanda, Maputo, Tessenei, Petrinja... Con el tiempo, los recuerdos se vuelven racimos de cerezas, donde unas tiran de otras: un nombre trae una esquina acribillada a tiros; una ciudad trae un rostro; una habitaci n de hotel devuelve una conversaci n; una soledad o una m sica te hacen recordar una carretera, una sonrisa o una tumba. Y no se trata de nostalgia, sino del simple archivo de una larga vida. Del material con que luego uno escribe novelas y algunas noches, desvelado en la oscuridad, paga el precio de haber mirado tanto tiempo al ser humano sin apartar los ojos . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A WAR BIOGRAPHY.
An essential book for understanding Arturo P rez-Reverte's literary perspective.
"I walked through a world at war trying to understand. No one told me about it. I was there, and this is what I saw." For twenty-one years as a war reporter, Arturo P rez-Reverte experienced firsthand the bloodiest conflicts of the last third of the 20th century. His experience in war zones around the world shaped his life and left its mark on his subsequent literary work. Over time, the former reporter pieced together a war memoir that is, moreover, one of the most extraordinary accounts in Spanish-language journalism. This book brings together, in chronological order, a selection of chronicles and reports written in the 1970s and 1980s, supplemented by articles published in recent decades on past and present conflicts, dignity and cowardice, truth and manipulation. In these pages, we share the memories of a man who was where very few wanted to be and told what many prefer to forget. The author states in the prologue: "War stays in your head and never leaves you. It's not just names and faces. The places also return with the same stubbornness: Mostar, Sarajevo, Vukovar, Beirut, Malabo, Kassala, Managua, N'Djamena, Paso de la Yegua, Khartoum, Bucharest, Nairobi, El Aai n, Baghdad, Luanda, Maputo, Tessenei, Petrinja... Over time, memories become clusters of cherries, where one pulls at another: a name brings to mind a street corner riddled with bullet holes; a city brings a face; a hotel room brings back a conversation; a moment of solitude or a piece of music makes you recall a road, a smile, or a grave. And this is not nostalgia, but simply the archive of a long life. The material with which one later writes novels and, on some nights, lying awake in the darkness, pays the price for having looked so long at the human being without looking away."
Un libro imprescindible para comprender la mirada literaria de Arturo P rez-Reverte.
«Camin por un mundo en guerra intentando comprender. No me lo contaron. Estuve all , y esto es lo que vi. Durante veinti n a os como reportero de guerra, Arturo P rez-Reverte vivi en primera l nea los conflictos m s cruentos del ltimo tercio del siglo XX. Su experiencia en escenarios b licos de todo el mundo marc su vida y dej huella en su posterior obra literaria. Con el tiempo, el antiguo reportero fue configurando una biograf a de guerra que es, adem s, uno de los relatos m s extraordinarios del periodismo en lengua espa ola. Este libro re ne, en orden cronol gico, una selecci n de cr nicas y reportajes escritos en los setenta y los ochenta, a los que se a aden los art culos publicados en las ltimas d cadas sobre conflictos pasados y presentes, dignidad y cobard a, verdad y manipulaci n. En estas p ginas compartimos la memoria de un hombre que estuvo donde muy pocos quer an estar y cont lo que muchos prefieren olvidar. El autor afirma en el pr logo: «La guerra se queda en tu cabeza y ya no te abandona jam s. No son solo nombres y rostros. Tambi n los lugares retornan con la misma terquedad: Mostar, Sarajevo, Vukovar, Beirut, Malabo, Kassala, Managua, Yamena, Paso de la Yegua, Jartum, Bucarest, Nairobi, El Aai n, Bagdad, Luanda, Maputo, Tessenei, Petrinja... Con el tiempo, los recuerdos se vuelven racimos de cerezas, donde unas tiran de otras: un nombre trae una esquina acribillada a tiros; una ciudad trae un rostro; una habitaci n de hotel devuelve una conversaci n; una soledad o una m sica te hacen recordar una carretera, una sonrisa o una tumba. Y no se trata de nostalgia, sino del simple archivo de una larga vida. Del material con que luego uno escribe novelas y algunas noches, desvelado en la oscuridad, paga el precio de haber mirado tanto tiempo al ser humano sin apartar los ojos . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A WAR BIOGRAPHY.
An essential book for understanding Arturo P rez-Reverte's literary perspective.
"I walked through a world at war trying to understand. No one told me about it. I was there, and this is what I saw." For twenty-one years as a war reporter, Arturo P rez-Reverte experienced firsthand the bloodiest conflicts of the last third of the 20th century. His experience in war zones around the world shaped his life and left its mark on his subsequent literary work. Over time, the former reporter pieced together a war memoir that is, moreover, one of the most extraordinary accounts in Spanish-language journalism. This book brings together, in chronological order, a selection of chronicles and reports written in the 1970s and 1980s, supplemented by articles published in recent decades on past and present conflicts, dignity and cowardice, truth and manipulation. In these pages, we share the memories of a man who was where very few wanted to be and told what many prefer to forget. The author states in the prologue: "War stays in your head and never leaves you. It's not just names and faces. The places also return with the same stubbornness: Mostar, Sarajevo, Vukovar, Beirut, Malabo, Kassala, Managua, N'Djamena, Paso de la Yegua, Khartoum, Bucharest, Nairobi, El Aai n, Baghdad, Luanda, Maputo, Tessenei, Petrinja... Over time, memories become clusters of cherries, where one pulls at another: a name brings to mind a street corner riddled with bullet holes; a city brings a face; a hotel room brings back a conversation; a moment of solitude or a piece of music makes you recall a road, a smile, or a grave. And this is not nostalgia, but simply the archive of a long life. The material with which one later writes novels and, on some nights, lying awake in the darkness, pays the price for having looked so long at the human being without looking away."
Format:Paperback
Language:Spanish
ISBN:6073875193
ISBN13:9786073875196
Release Date:August 2026
Publisher:Alfaguara
Length:616 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.0" x 9.4"
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