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El Lápiz del Carpintero (60 Aniversario de Alfaguara) / The Carpenter's Pencil
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ISBN10: 8420478776
ISBN13: 9788420478777
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.40
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9788420478777
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.40
Language: Spanish
Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 2024 Cuando todo se derrumba, cuando el mal se erige en sistema y la crueldad en norma, puede un lápiz salvar el mundo?
«He aprendido más de la guerra civil española leyendo El lápiz del carpintero, de Manuel Rivas, que en todos los libros de historia. -Günter Grass Premio de la CrÃtica Española
«He aprendido más de la guerra civil española leyendo El lápiz del carpintero, de Manuel Rivas, que en todos los libros de historia. -Günter Grass Premio de la CrÃtica Española
Premio de la Sección Belga de AmnistÃa Internacional En la cárcel de Santiago de Compostela, en el verano de 1936, un pintor dibuja el Pórtico de la Gloria con un lápiz de carpintero. Los rostros de los profetas y de los ancianos de la Orquesta del Apocalipsis son los de sus compañeros republicanos de presidio. Un guardián, su futuro asesino, lo observa fascinado... La historia de ese lápiz, conductor de memorias, portador de almas, continuará hasta nuestros dÃas. Después de La lengua de las mariposas, Manuel Rivas retoma el hilo de la tragedia española, la guerra que estremeció al mundo y marcó la historia del siglo XX. Pero El lápiz del carpintero no es una historia más sobre la guerra. Trata de la vida de los hombres y las mujeres en el lado más salvaje de la historia. Trata de la fuerza del amor ocupando el hueco abismal de la desesperanza. Con el lápiz del carpintero, con las manos de las lavanderas, con el dolor fantasma de los amputados, con la belleza tÃsica de los enfermos... va tejiéndose la red de la realidad inteligente. Aquà el lenguaje se confunde con el aliento de la vida, con el código morse de las vÃsceras. Una novela escrita desde hoy y para siempre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 2024 award
The acclaimed Galician author's novel of the Spanish Civil War is a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history (The Guardian). Novelist and El PaÃs journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish authors. Originally written in Galician, his native language, The Carpenter's Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been published in nine countries. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, The Carpenter's Pencil charts the linked destinies of Dr. Daniel Da Barca, a Republican who cheats death in General Franco's prisons; Herbal, an illiterate Falangist and Da Barca's shadow; and an unnamed painter with the carpenter's pencil, the man who unites them in life and death. It is also the story of Marisa Mallo, loved by both Da Barca and Herbal; Pepe Sánchez, the bolero singer; Genghis Khan, the wrestler; and the legend of two estranged sisters, Life and Death. All of these and more are bound by the events of the war. And all are rendered, in Rivas's skillful hand, with the power of the carpenter's pencil, a pencil that draws both the measured line and the artist's fanciful vision.
The acclaimed Galician author's novel of the Spanish Civil War is a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history (The Guardian). Novelist and El PaÃs journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish authors. Originally written in Galician, his native language, The Carpenter's Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been published in nine countries. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, The Carpenter's Pencil charts the linked destinies of Dr. Daniel Da Barca, a Republican who cheats death in General Franco's prisons; Herbal, an illiterate Falangist and Da Barca's shadow; and an unnamed painter with the carpenter's pencil, the man who unites them in life and death. It is also the story of Marisa Mallo, loved by both Da Barca and Herbal; Pepe Sánchez, the bolero singer; Genghis Khan, the wrestler; and the legend of two estranged sisters, Life and Death. All of these and more are bound by the events of the war. And all are rendered, in Rivas's skillful hand, with the power of the carpenter's pencil, a pencil that draws both the measured line and the artist's fanciful vision.
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