Name: Los Culpables (in Spanish)
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Author: Juan Villoro
ISBN: 9788433971654

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Villoro

Publisher

Anagrama

Collection

NARRATIVAS HISPÁNICAS

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22x10.2x1.2 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

8433971654

ISBN13

9788433971654

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Los Culpables (in Spanish)"

Los culpables ofrece una brillante reflexion sobre las posibilidades de la voz hablada. Los seis cuentos y la nouvelle que integran este volumen han sido escritos en primera persona. A traves de ellos, el escritor busca explorar la forma en que alguien podria hablar en un momento critico y revelador. Un mariachi harto de su exito folklorico, un futbolista al borde del retiro, un guionista que edita con tijeras para rebanar pollos, un limpiador de ventanas suspendido en un andamio, un viajero que adopta una iguana y un anfitrion convencido de que los mexicanos solo matan a sus amigos, cuentan lo que no quieren contar. Si la confesion religiosa busca descargar la culpa a traves de revelaciones, Villoro logra el procedimiento opuesto: sus personajes se incriminan por lo que dicen para disculparse, se ponen en tela de juicio. Con altas dosis de humor, punteria verbal y tension dramatica, Juan Villoro registra la excepcional elocuencia de quienes, para librarse de la verdad que los asedia, se vuelven culpables de literatura. / The Guilty offers a brilliant reflection on the possibilities of the spoken word. The six stories and the novella that make up this volume have been written in the first person. A mariachi who is tired of his folkloric success, a window cleaner hanging from scaffolding, and traveller who adopts an iguana tell the stories they do not want to tell. With a high dose of humour, verbal precision and dramatic tension, Villoro is the voice of those who become guilty of literature in order to free themselves from the truth which pursues them.

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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