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¿Qué signo es usted, niña Berta?

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138 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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Horacio Castellanos Moya

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HORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as editor of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala and his own country. As a fiction writer, he was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and in the City of Asylum program in Pittsburgh (2006-2008). He has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he was guest researcher at the University of Tokyo with a fellowship granted by the Japan Foundation. He has published eleven novels, five short story collections, two essay books, and a diary. His novels have been translated into twelve languages; five of them (Senselessness, The She-Devil in the mirror, Dance with Snakes, Revulsion, and Tyrant memory) are available in English. He was awarded the Manuel Rojas Iberoamerican Prize for Fiction 2014, by the Government of Chile.

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June 17, 2025
siempre me pregunté por qué Con la congoja de la pasada tormenta no incluía los cuentos de esta colección, y con leerlos se entiende por qué: cuentos jayanes con salvadoreñismos en cada renglón. por esta misma razón, he de asumir que la versión de Random House de La diáspora tuvo que presentar cambios con respecto a la primera ed. de la UCA.

por veces el lenguaje es chistoso, en otras creo q se esfuerza demasiado en sonar local. por otra parte, es interesante y valioso que, en conjunto, la colección sea un vistazo a la vida cotidiana en medio de la guerra civil, pero el tratamiento de los temas de ciertos textos no da para un buen cuento. pienso, por mencionar algo, en Al recibir por fin Luis un juguete, y también en Feria de artesanías.

de forma general, los cuentos están bien.
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