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O mie și una de nopți

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No existe en la historia de la literatura una parábola más sencilla y luminosa que la de Sherezada y Sahrigar para explicar la razón de ser de la ficción en la vida de los seres humanos." Mario Vargas Llosa "Para Sherezada contar cuentos que capturen la atención del Rey es cuestión de vida o muerte. Si Sahrigar se desinteresa o se aburre de sus historias, será entregada al verdugo con las primeras luces del alba. Ese peligro mortal aguza su fantasía y la lleva, sin saberlo, a descubrir que el mundo de la ficción es, como el mundo real, uno, diverso e irrompible. Cuando el rey Sahrigar perdona a su esposa es alguien al que los cuentos han transformado en un ser civil, sensible y soñador." Mario Vargas Llosa ENGLISH DESCRIPTION No other work in the history of literature can provide a clearer and more luminous parable to explain the raison dêtre of fiction in human life than that of Scheherazade and Shahryar. For Scheherazade, it is a matter of life and death to ensure her stories capture the attention of the king. If she fails to do so, she will be delivered into the hands of the executioner at daybreak. This state of mortal peril sharpens her creativity and leads her to discover that the world of fiction is, just as the real world, a diverse and unbreakable one.

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, 1963/1966), The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in The Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral, 1969/1975). He wrote prolifically across various literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. He won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize and the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award. Several of his works have been adopted as feature films, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977/1982). Vargas Llosa's perception of Peruvian society and his experiences as a native Peruvian influenced many of his works. Increasingly, he expanded his range and tackled themes from other parts of the world. In his essays, Vargas Llosa criticized nationalism in different parts of the world.
Like many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa was politically active. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with its policies, particularly after the imprisonment of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla in 1971, and later identified as a liberal and held anti-left-wing ideas. He ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating for liberal reforms, but lost the election to Alberto Fujimori in a landslide.
Vargas Llosa continued his literary career while advocating for right-wing activists and candidates internationally following his exit from direct participation in Peruvian politics. He was awarded the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2011, Vargas Llosa was made the Marquess of Vargas Llosa by Spanish king Juan Carlos I. In 2021, he was elected to the Académie française.

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1,314 reviews
June 24, 2019
O piesă tare bună, care mă face să vreau să citesc cartea O mie și una de nopți
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8 reviews1 follower
March 4, 2014
Editia cuprinde si discursul sustinut de Llosa la decernarea Premiului Nobel, un discurs calduros si personal despre rolul literaturii, despre el insusi ca povestas, patriot si cetatean al lumii deopotriva. Alaturarea versiuni lui Llosa a " O mie si una de nopti" discursului e grozav de potrivita, caci imblanzirea lui Sahriar si transformarea lui, la sfarsitul piesei, in povestitor, ilustreaza functia suprema a literaturii, asa cum este ea vazuta de Llosa, cea de umanizare. Ca reprezentatie, piesa este gandita doar pentru doi actori, care interpreteaza pe rand numeroasele personaje. Llosa insusi s-a jucat pe sine, pe Sahriar si plasmuirile de sex masculin ale Seherazadei, devenind, asemenea povestitorilor dinainte aparitiei cuvantului scris, actor pentru istorisirile sale. Povestile alese de el sunt frumoase si scrise cu iscusinta, transpuse modern. Citatul meu preferat: "cand linxul s-a simtit pierdut, s-a facut iute viermisor si s-a pitit intr-o rodie", din scena luptei zanei Bustan cu duhul cel rau, mai expresiva si dinamica fata de cum imi amintesc eu luptele cu zmei.
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May 5, 2024
Otra vez tras la voz de Aitana Sanchez Gijón y Pedro Casablanc, para sumergirme en las noches mágicas de un cuento tras otro para que al amanecer no llegue el sable del verdugo que acabe con la vida. Otro libro mágico por el que me he dejado abrazar y por el que han paseado mis sueños. He escuchado la versión de audiolibro de Audible. Excelente!. Me ha encantado.
Pedro, Aitana, queremos más!!!!
Gracias!
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August 27, 2024
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185 reviews7 followers
January 6, 2025
یک نمایشنامه‌ی اقتباسی از هزار و یک شب به قلم جناب یوسا. چی از این بهتر؟
برای منی که زیاد با هزار و یک شب آشنایی نداشتم و نمایشنامه هم خیلی دوست دارم واقعا دلنشین بود. ارزش خواندن داره واقعا.
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September 20, 2025
Una historia entretenida que referencia el mito de Damocles y hace constar que las personas somos seres de historias.
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449 reviews9 followers
May 7, 2017
Aclaración: el libro al que pertenece esta portada no es el de "las mil y una noches" original, si no el de la obra de teatro escrita por Mario Vargas Llosa basada en un cuento del original. La reseña que presento es sobre la obra de reatro.

No soy una persona a la que le encanta leer obras dramáticas, siento que al leerlas se pierde la magia de la representación teatral. Es mucho mejor verlas y disfrutarlas que hurgar las entrañas de la obra y perder la sorpresa que los actores nos demuestran en el escenario.

Como no e visto (ni veré, no por falta de gusto si no por que no creo que se presente en donde vivo), leí esta obra y en terminos generales me patecio buena. Lo que me gusto de ella es que presentan una historia no convencional dentro del catálogo de las mil y una noches, es algo diferente y eso se aprecia. Y lo más facinante es que los autores son concientes de que estan representando una obra de teatro de una historia ya escrita y aún asi no se pierde la inmersión.

Solo dos cosas no me gustaron, las fotografias que se presentan son en blanco y negro, impresas en la misma tinta que el texto, lo que impide que se aprecien bien y lo segundo es que las indicaciones que se dan a los actores y a los tramoyistas son un poco vagas. Yo creo que al leer una obra de teatro parte de lo que lo hace interesante es saber las indicaciones del escritos de la manera en como él visualizó la obra, y aqui esa parte es un poco ausente.


En general me gustó el libro. Incluye un prologo en el que el autor explica un poco la relevancia de la obra original y de la logística para poder armar su representación teatral. Fuera de eso no es nada extraordinario.
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