Enviado Especial / Special Correspondent - Paperback
Description
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Author)
UNA BIOGRAFÍA DE GUERRA.
Un libro imprescindible para comprender la mirada literaria de Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
«Caminé por un mundo en guerra intentando comprender. No me lo contaron. Estuve allí, y esto es lo que vi.
A WAR BIOGRAPHY.
An essential book for understanding Arturo Pérez-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 Pérez-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 Aaiún, 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."
Author Biography
Arturo Pérez-Reverte nació en Cartagena, España, en 1951. Fue reportero de guerra durante veintiún años y cubrió dieciocho conflictos armados para los diarios y la televisión. Con más de veintisiete millones de libros vendidos en todo el mundo, traducido a cuarenta idiomas, muchas de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine y la televisión. Hoy comparte su vida entre la literatura, el mar y la navegación. Es miembro de la Real Academia Española y de la Asociación de Escritores de Marina de Francia.
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