Name: El Apocalipsis (Todo Incluido)
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Author: Juan Villoro
ISBN: 9786074111682

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Physical Book

Author

Juan Villoro

Publisher

Almadia

Synopsis "El Apocalipsis (Todo Incluido)"

Un guía turístico de Chichén Itzá da una conferencia sobre la teoría maya del fin del mundo para impresionar a una mujer y traicionar de paso a todo en lo que ha creído. Tras una caminata iniciática por la ciudad, una niña empieza a sospechar que su papá convive con una familia alternativa. Un hombre que se dedica a la estadística tiene un tórrido romance con una desconocida que miente cuando está excitada.

Personajes que delatan su clandestinidad estando en su propio país, que miran hundirse el terruño desde la cómoda nostalgia del exilio, que cruzan una y otra vez sus fronteras sólo para mirar con ojos frescos el derrumbe de siempre. Los cuentos de El Apocalipsis (todo incluido) avanzan con soltura por caminos cuesta arriba: dudosas herencias familiares, arrestos que derivan en partidos de futbol llanero, amigos de toda la vida que funcionan como el mejor de los enemigos; pero también remontan corrientes traicioneras: la necesidad de reinventarse en medio de cada crisis, de sobrevivir a las batallas que se pierden por goliza.

Con precisión y enorme sentido del humor, Villoro retrata a ciudadanos empeñados en ignorar su desgracia, ya sea por sobrevivencia o por deporte, pero también porque esperan que cuando el mundo se resquebraje en mil pedazos, les toque algo mejor.

Juan Villoro

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Writer and journalist, Juan Villoro was born in Mexico City in 1956. He has been a professor at UNAM, and a visiting professor at the universities of Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, as well as at the New Journalism Foundation, created by Gabriel García Márquez. He is a columnist for Reforma (Mexico), has written for international media such as The New York Times (US), El País (Spain) and El Mercurio (Chile), among others. He was the director of La Jornada Semanal.

He studied Sociology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University-Iztapalapa. He is a doctor honoris causa by the Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo and by the Metropolitan Autonomous University. Since 2014 he is a member of El Colegio Nacional.

In 2012 he received the Ibero-American José Donoso Award and in 2018 the Manuel Rojas Award, both awarded in Chile, for his body of work. Among the recognitions he has received in Mexico is the Mazatlán Literature Award for his book of literary essays Personal Effects and the Xavier Villaurrutia Award for his book of stories The House Loses.

He received in Spain the Herralde Award for his novel The Witness; in Argentina the ACE Award for his play Philosophy of Life and in Cuba the José María Arguedas Award for his novel Reef. His journalistic work has been recognized with the King of Spain International Journalism Award, City of Barcelona Award, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán International Journalism Award, as well as the Fernando Benítez Tribute of the International Book Fair, and the Award for Journalistic Excellence, granted by the Gabo Foundation (Colombia), 2022.

His novel for young people The Wild Book has sold more than one million copies.

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