Name: Cuentos Completos 1 (in Spanish)
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Author: Rubem Fonseca
ISBN: 9789876705233

portada Cuentos Completos 1 (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rubem Fonseca

Publisher

Tusquets Editores

Topic

Narrativa

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

580

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23x15 cm

ISBN13

9789876705233

Edited in

Argentina

Synopsis "Cuentos Completos 1 (in Spanish)"

Rubem Fonseca es referente obligado de la literatura latinoamericana de los últimos cincuenta años. Cuentista consumado, transgresor e impredecible, se lo considera uno de los máximos exponentes de este género, dentro y fuera de Brasil.
Cuentos completos es la primera recopilación de todos los relatos breves de Fonseca que se publica en español. En este volumen se incluyen sus primeros cinco libros (de 1963 a 1979): Los prisioneros, Lúcia McCartney, El collar del perro, Feliz año nuevo y El cobrador, donde aparece el relato del mismo nombre, acaso su cuento más famoso.

«Lo mejor de la obra de Rubem Fonseca es no saber adónde nos va a llevar. Siempre que comienzo un libro suyo es como si sonara el teléfono a medianoche: “Hola, soy yo. No vas a creer lo que está sucediendo”».
Thomas Pynchon

Rubem Fonseca

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Rubem Fonseca (Juiz de Fora, Brazil, May 11, 1925 – Rio de Janeiro, April 15, 2020) was one of the most influential writers and screenwriters in contemporary Brazilian literature. Considered a major renovator of narrative in Portuguese, his direct, raw, and uncompromising style masterfully portrayed urban violence, marginality, and the social contradictions of modern Brazil. Before dedicating himself entirely to literature, Fonseca worked as a lawyer and police commissioner in Rio de Janeiro, experiences that deeply marked his work and allowed him to explore human complexity from a unique perspective.

He debuted in 1963 with The Prisoners and gained international notoriety with titles such as Happy New Year, The Collector, The Morel Case, High Art, August, Bufo & Spallanzani, and Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts. His work, essential for dirty realism and Latin American crime literature, has been translated into numerous languages and adapted into films. Fonseca received notable literary awards, including the Camões Prize (2003), the Juan Rulfo Prize (2003), and the Ibero-American Narrative Manuel Rojas Prize (2012), consolidating his legacy as an indispensable reference in Portuguese-language literature.

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