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portada Los Años Extraordinarios / The Extraordinary Years (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2021
Language
Spanish
Pages
360
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.8 x 14.9 x 3.4 cm
Weight
0.54 kg.
ISBN13
9788439738848
Edition No.
001

Los Años Extraordinarios / The Extraordinary Years (in Spanish)

Rodrigo Cortés (Author) · Literatura Random House · Paperback

Los Años Extraordinarios / The Extraordinary Years (in Spanish) - Cortés, Rodrigo

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Synopsis "Los Años Extraordinarios / The Extraordinary Years (in Spanish)"

Un recorrido valleinclanesco por el siglo XX a través de los recuerdos y viajes de Jaime Fanjul. Los años extraordinarios recoge las memorias de Jaime Fanjul, nacido en Salamanca en 1902 en el seno de una familia burguesa apasionada por las serpientes, y nos propone un recorrido valleinclanesco por el siglo XX a través de sus recuerdos y viajes. No hay clave fundamental del siglo que esta prodigiosa novela no evoque: de la llegada del mar a Salamanca al breve auge de los coches impulsados por el pensamiento; de la terrible crueldad de las cárceles portuguesas a la guerra de los de Alicante contra España (y los holandeses contra el resto del mundo); de las hazañas del Miseno, barco submarino transitador de túneles, a las insólitas habilidades de los teósofos, capaces de levitar unos centímetros por encima de la silla; de la llegada --boca abajo-- del hombre a la Luna al cambio de ubicación de la ciudad de París en 1940. En Los años extraordinarios caben los niños con poderes antiguos, los esclavos que aterrorizan a sus amos, los fantasmas con ropa de sastre, las jovencitas de ochenta años, los judíos que cambian el tiempo, las peleas a puñetazo limpio con monjas bravas, los talleres de estropear cosas... Jaime Fanjul recorre el mundo contando lo mucho que le pasa y lo poco que aprende. Serio, observador, sin queja, rememora su camino con humor imprevisible y aliento poético. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A Valleinclanesco journey across the 20th century through the memories and travels of Jaime Fanjul. The Extraordinary Years collects the memories of Jaime Fanjul, born in Salamanca in 1902 into a bourgeois family passionate about snakes, and proposes a Valleinclanesco journey across the 20th century through his memories and travels. There's no fundamental aspect of the century that this prodigious novel does not recall: from the arrival of the sea in Salamanca to the short-lived boom in cars driven by thought; from the terrible cruelty of the Portuguese prisons to the war of Alicante against Spain (and the Dutch against the rest of the world); from the exploits of the Miseno, an underwater tunnel-traveling ship, to the unusual abilities of the Theosophists, capable of levitating a few inches above a chair; from the arrival -face down -of the man on theMoon to the location change of the city of Paris in 1940. In The Extraordinary Years there are children with ancient powers, slaves who terrorize their masters, ghosts with tailored clothes, the eighty-year-old girls, the Jews who change the weather, the fist fights with brave nuns, the workshops on how to ruin things... Jaime Fanjul travels the world telling everything that happens to him and how little he learns. Serious, observant, without complaint, he recalls his journey with unpredictable humor and poetic breath.

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Oscar Bravo GarcíaWednesday, December 15, 2021
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¡Cortés es un genio!

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