Name: Modern Classics Liveforever! (Penguin Modern Classics)
SKU: 39024304
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Author: Andrés Caicedo
ISBN: 9780141196688

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Modern Classics Liveforever! (Penguin Modern Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Andrés Caicedo

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141196688

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Modern Classics Liveforever! (Penguin Modern Classics)

Andrés Caicedo (Author) · Penguin Classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "Modern Classics Liveforever! (Penguin Modern Classics) "

Andrés Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music. María del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she misses class, and discovers she cannot return to her ordinary existence but must pursue her passion for dancing across the city. We follow her from rumbas in car parks to concerts in shantytowns as she gives in to every desire - however dark. Published in 1977, Liveforever was its young author's masterpiece - and final work. Andrés Caicedo took his life the day it was published, but it has been recognized as a landmark in Colombian literature ever since. Andrés Caicedo was born in Cali, Colombia on September 29, 1951. In his short life, he wrote dozens of articles on film, several plays, screenplays, novellas, and countless short stories, with a prominent focus on social discord. He committed suicide at the age of 25.

Andrés Caicedo

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Andrés Caicedo was born in Cali in 1951 and his work is considered one of the most original in Colombian literature. In his 25 years of life, he directed his own theatrical productions, wrote a considerable number of short stories, maintained an intense and elaborate correspondence, and ventured into the world of the novel with relentless passion and urgency. Similarly, cinema was one of his main obsessions, first as a filmmaker, then as a screenwriter, and finally as a sharp critic, founder of the magazine Ojo al cine and director of the Cine-Club de Cali. He committed suicide on March 4, 1977, the same day he received the first printed copy of ¡Que viva la música!, the novel for which he is remembered to this day and which has been translated into several languages. Among his most notable texts are the stories El atravesado, Angelitos empantanados o historias para jovencitos and the novel Noche sin fortuna.

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