Name: Mr. Vertigo (in Spanish)
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Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9786070722257

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Auster

Publisher

Planeta

Topic

Literature

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

316

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12 cm

ISBN

6070722256

ISBN13

9786070722257

Edited in

México

Synopsis "Mr. Vertigo (in Spanish)"

En las calles de Saint Louis, a principios del siglo XX, el maestro Yehudi propone un trato a Walt, un joven huérfano que posee «el don»: si se va con él, le enseñará a volar; y si no lo consigue, el niño puede vengarse del engaño cortándole la cabeza. Así comienza una fábula, un viaje, un aprendizaje y una vida. Junto con la anciana madre Sue y el bondadoso chico etíope Aesop, Walt experimentará, no sin sufrimiento, la poderosa fuerza de la voluntad y del deseo.

Éste es un relato de imaginación desbordante, tierno y mágico, en el que el propio Walter, Mr. Vértigo, ya mayor, echa la vista atrás y hace un repaso a su historia personal y también a la de Estados Unidos.

«Mr. Vértigo es una virtuosa pieza narrativa de un maestro de la fábula americana.»
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Paul Auster

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Paul Auster was a writer, translator, and filmmaker. Among his works are The Invention of Solitude (1982); The New York Trilogy (1987); Moon Palace (1989); Leviathan (1992); Timbuktu (1999); The Book of Illusions (2002); Oracle Night (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Sunset Park (2010); Winter Journal (2012); 4 3 2 1 (2017); The Immortal Flame of Stephen Crane (2021); A Country Bathed in Blood (2023), in collaboration with Spencer Ostrander, and Baumgartner (2024). He wrote the screenplays for the films Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995), co-directing with Wayne Wang, and for Lulu on the Bridge (1998) and The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007), which he directed alone. He edited the short story collection I Thought My Father Was God (2001) and his poetic work is collected in the volume Complete Poetry (2012). He was also the author of A Life in Words (2018), a volume that collects his conversations with Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt about his work and the craft of writing.
He received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions. He was named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He has received numerous awards, including the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions, the Qué Leer Award for Oracle Night, and the Leteo Award; he was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Book of Illusions and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Music of Chance.
In 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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