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Luis Buñuel. La forja de un cineasta universal
El hispanista Ian Gibson profundiza en las raíces de la vida de Buñuel para ofrecer al lector una nueva perspectiva desde la que abordar una de las trayectorias creativas más fascinantes del siglo XX.
La de Luis Buñuel es una de las obras cinematográficas más vanguardistas y originales de la historia. Es a través de ella, transida de los ecos más íntimos, que Ian Gibson reconstruye la figura del genial cineasta en un relato magistral.
Con una revisión minuciosa de la bibliografía y una rigurosa investigación, el reconocido biógrafo retrata los primeros años de Buñuel, desde su infancia hasta su marcha hacia América. Repasa así la intensa relación con la madre, su educación jesuita, su relación con Lorca y Dalí, París, Un chien andalou, el escándalo de L'Âge d'or, el regreso a España, el compromiso antifascista...
La crítica ha dicho... «En Luis Buñuel. La forja de un cineasta universal, Ian Gibson busca las raíces primeras de la obra cinematográfica del calandino. Siete años ha tardado en recopilar datos y recuperar pistas in situ en Calanda, Zaragoza, Madrid o París. El un perfil de Buñuel que resulta inquietante». Núria Scur, La Vanguardia
«Gibson se muestra perspicaz y no rehúye las contradicciones de Luis Buñuel, sus luces y somrbas.» Agustín Sánchez Vidal, El País
La de Luis Buñuel es una de las obras cinematográficas más vanguardistas y originales de la historia. Es a través de ella, transida de los ecos más íntimos, que Ian Gibson reconstruye la figura del genial cineasta en un relato magistral.
Con una revisión minuciosa de la bibliografía y una rigurosa investigación, el reconocido biógrafo retrata los primeros años de Buñuel, desde su infancia hasta su marcha hacia América. Repasa así la intensa relación con la madre, su educación jesuita, su relación con Lorca y Dalí, París, Un chien andalou, el escándalo de L'Âge d'or, el regreso a España, el compromiso antifascista...
La crítica ha dicho... «En Luis Buñuel. La forja de un cineasta universal, Ian Gibson busca las raíces primeras de la obra cinematográfica del calandino. Siete años ha tardado en recopilar datos y recuperar pistas in situ en Calanda, Zaragoza, Madrid o París. El un perfil de Buñuel que resulta inquietante». Núria Scur, La Vanguardia
«Gibson se muestra perspicaz y no rehúye las contradicciones de Luis Buñuel, sus luces y somrbas.» Agustín Sánchez Vidal, El País
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First published October 16, 2013
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Ian Gibson
242 books97 followersIan Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of Antonio Machado, Salvador Dalí, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and particularly his work on Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca (The nationalistic repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca) was banned in Spain under Franco.
Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Spanish literature at Belfast and London universities before moving to Spain. His first novel, Viento del Sur (Wind of the South, 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain.
Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering around his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama.
He was granted a Spanish passport in 1984.
Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Spanish literature at Belfast and London universities before moving to Spain. His first novel, Viento del Sur (Wind of the South, 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain.
Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering around his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama.
He was granted a Spanish passport in 1984.
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