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Todos los cuentos
Un volumen que reúne toda la obra cuentística del Premio Cervantes Sergio Ramírez.
La cuentística de Sergio Ramírez se destaca por su peculiar sentido de lo mediante un juego de perspectivas logra crear efectos y sensaciones contrapuestas en el lector. A manera de sátira social, sus cuentos narran con tono irónico los más comunes sucesos de la cultura latinoamericana.
Historias frescas, personajes y diálogos pulidos muestran el gran talento del nicaragüense y la madurez que ha alcanzado su trabajo. Escritor de ficción que transforma las preocupaciones del acontecer cotidiano y político de su país en grandes historias icónicas.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A volume which compiles all the short story work of the Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramirez.
Sergio Ramirez’ short stories stand out due to his peculiar visual through a game of perceptions he plays with the reader and manages to create opposing effects and sensations. As social satire and with an ironic tone, his stories narrate the most common events of Latin American culture.
Lively stories and well-polished characters and dialogues display the Nicaraguan writer’s great talent and portray the wisdom and high quality that his work has achieved. Ramirez is a fiction writer that transforms his country’s current anguishes and political events into great iconic stories.
La cuentística de Sergio Ramírez se destaca por su peculiar sentido de lo mediante un juego de perspectivas logra crear efectos y sensaciones contrapuestas en el lector. A manera de sátira social, sus cuentos narran con tono irónico los más comunes sucesos de la cultura latinoamericana.
Historias frescas, personajes y diálogos pulidos muestran el gran talento del nicaragüense y la madurez que ha alcanzado su trabajo. Escritor de ficción que transforma las preocupaciones del acontecer cotidiano y político de su país en grandes historias icónicas.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A volume which compiles all the short story work of the Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramirez.
Sergio Ramirez’ short stories stand out due to his peculiar visual through a game of perceptions he plays with the reader and manages to create opposing effects and sensations. As social satire and with an ironic tone, his stories narrate the most common events of Latin American culture.
Lively stories and well-polished characters and dialogues display the Nicaraguan writer’s great talent and portray the wisdom and high quality that his work has achieved. Ramirez is a fiction writer that transforms his country’s current anguishes and political events into great iconic stories.
830 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published April 1, 2018
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Sergio Ramírez
152 books145 followersSergio Ramírez Mercado (born August 5, 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.
Born in Masatepe in 1942, he published his first book, Cuentos, in 1963. He received his law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua of León in 1964, where he obtained the Gold Medal for being the best student.
In 1977 Ramírez became head of the "Group of Twelve", a group of prominent intellectuals, priests, businesspeople, and members of civil society who publicly stated their support for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) in its struggle to topple the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction, where he presided over the National Council of Education. He was elected vice-president of Nicaragua in 1984 and was sworn in 1985.
Born in Masatepe in 1942, he published his first book, Cuentos, in 1963. He received his law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua of León in 1964, where he obtained the Gold Medal for being the best student.
In 1977 Ramírez became head of the "Group of Twelve", a group of prominent intellectuals, priests, businesspeople, and members of civil society who publicly stated their support for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) in its struggle to topple the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction, where he presided over the National Council of Education. He was elected vice-president of Nicaragua in 1984 and was sworn in 1985.
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