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A carregar... Cervantes Street (edição 2012)por Jaime Manrique
Informação Sobre a ObraCervantes Street por Jaime Manrique
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  BPLG | Jan 27, 2015 |   The book has alternating chapters. Half of them are in the first person by Cervantes and tell his life story from birth to death, focusing on his fleeing from Spain following a bar room brawl, coming to Italy, fighting in the battle of Lepanto, and his time in captivity in Algiers. Many of the elements and characters he encounters are refashioned into Don Quixote, although the persiod when he was in and out of jail and writing his masterpiece basically take place off stage. The other half of the chapters are primarily by what I believe is a fictional character, Luis Lara, a wealthy aristocrat who befriends Cervantes, ultimately becomes obsessively jealous of him, and writes the famous, false Don Quixote Part II--an unauthorized sequel to Don Quixote that appeared prior to Cervantes own continuation. Luis is fascinating because he feels his greater education and literary background make him superior to Cervantes gutter humor. The final chapter is narrated by Luis's servant--which gives yet another perspective on the entire story. Cervantes Street can be read as a fast-paced adventure story, a running commentary on Don Quixote, a historical biopic, or an interesting piece of speculative fiction. The writing itself is extremely good and is sprinkled throughout with borrowing from Don Quixote and other Cervantes writing which are woven effortlessly into the original novel itself. Reading it is sending me right back to Don Quixote for a third time. (  ) nosajeel | Jun 21, 2014 | This is a somewhat true and at times very humorous narration of the life of Cervantes. The story follows the interconnected lives of two writers- Miguel de Cervantes himself and the presumed author of the apocryphal second part of Don Quijote that led Cervantes to actually write his own sequel. The lives of these two authors are told in the first person in intercepted chapters. Cervantes' known life events are told by Manrique very well, embelished vividly in many interesting ways. He captures his continuous struggles to make a living and become a successful and well known author, while often getting in trouble with the law. And Manrique invents Luis Lara, the character who writes the second Don Quijote under the name of Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda. He adds the interesting twist that both Miguel and Luis were friends in their youth, even though Luis was a nobleman while Cervantes was a commoner of (questionable) Jewish origin. But Luis comes to hate Miguel and spends the rest of his life thinking of ways to destroy Miguel. (  ) xieouyang | Dec 6, 2012 | The book has alternating chapters. Half of them are in the first person by Cervantes and tell his life story from birth to death, focusing on his fleeing from Spain following a bar room brawl, coming to Italy, fighting in the battle of Lepanto, and his time in captivity in Algiers. Many of the elements and characters he encounters are refashioned into Don Quixote, although the persiod when he was in and out of jail and writing his masterpiece basically take place off stage. The other half of the chapters are primarily by what I believe is a fictional character, Luis Lara, a wealthy aristocrat who befriends Cervantes, ultimately becomes obsessively jealous of him, and writes the famous, false Don Quixote Part II--an unauthorized sequel to Don Quixote that appeared prior to Cervantes own continuation. Luis is fascinating because he feels his greater education and literary background make him superior to Cervantes gutter humor. The final chapter is narrated by Luis's servant--which gives yet another perspective on the entire story. Cervantes Street can be read as a fast-paced adventure story, a running commentary on Don Quixote, a historical biopic, or an interesting piece of speculative fiction. The writing itself is extremely good and is sprinkled throughout with borrowing from Don Quixote and other Cervantes writing which are woven effortlessly into the original novel itself. Reading it is sending me right back to Don Quixote for a third time. ( ) jasonlf | Nov 17, 2012 | A very enjoyable send-up to the Quixote-esque novel. (  ) JBD1 | Sep 4, 2012 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
ALatinidad List Best Book of 2012 "Cervantes Street is exciting to read...Under Mr. Manrique's pen, the world of renaissance Spain and the Mediterranean is made vivid, its surface cracking with sudden violence and cruelty...This novel can be read as a generous salute across the centuries from one writer to another, as a sympathetic homage and recommendation...Cervantes Street brings to life the real world behind the fantastic exploits of the knight of La Mancha. The comic mishaps are funnier for being based in fact. The romantic adventures are more affecting.Cervantes Street has sent me back toDon Quixote. --The Wall Street Journal "Manrique adopts a florid, epic style for his tale of 16th-century Spain, one with the quality of a tale told by a troubadour rather than written on the page. He ably captures the human qualities of the legendary writer, as well as his swashbuckling." --Publishers Weekly "Manrique has penned a well-written, well-researched, fast-paced narrative ... An entertaining book ... and a superb retlling of Cervantes's life." --Library Journal "Cervantes Street is historical fiction at its best. Compact and intense... The characters are wonderfully draw, the environments are detailed and colorful and the feeling is genuine... a gripping, adventuresome novel with profound insight into the ways in which we choose our destiny." --New York Journal of Books "The novel is exciting, paced well, interesting and with a literary mystery to boot." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Hold onto your hats because Manrique has crafted a brilliant pastiche... This fun, diverting, swift odyssey into Cervantes' travels... puts tall tales where they belong, in capable fiction...Cervantes Street should be in your hands." --La Bloga "A sprawling vivacious big-hearted novel. Manrique is fantastically talented and this is perhaps his masterpiece." --Junot Díaz The actual facts of Miguel de Cervantes's life seem to be snatched from an epic tale: an impoverished and talented young poet nearly kills a man in a duel and is forced into exile; later, he distinguishes himself in battle and is severely wounded, losing the use of his left hand; on his way back to Spain his ship is captured by pirates and he is sold into slavery in Algiers; after prolonged imprisonment and failed escape attempts, he makes his way back home, eventually settling in a remote village in La Mancha to create his masterpiece, the first modern novel in Western literature:Don Quixote. Taking the bare bones of Cervantes' life, Jaime Manrique has accomplished a singular feat: an engaging and highly accessible take on a brilliant, enigmatic man and his epoch. This is an archetypal tale of rivalry and revenge--featuring Cervantes's antagonistic relationship with the man who would go on to write his own sequel toDon Quixote--that is sure to garner comparisons to Peter Shaffer'sAmadeus, Alexandre Dumas'The Count of Monte Cristo, and, with its extraordinary recreation of the life and times of Cervantes, to Hilary Mantel'sWolf Hall. Jaime Manrique is a novelist, essayist, and poet. His critically acclaimed novels includeLatin Moon in Manhattan andOur Lives Are the Rivers. He is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the City College of New York. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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A veces conmovedora, a veces cómica y grotesca, El Callejón provee claves que sugieren cómo Cervantes posiblemente creó a los personajes de Don Quijote basándose en sus propias experiencias de vida. Hasta el mismo emerge en la narración con un parecido inconfundible al Quijote que encontramos en su gran novela. Pero más que todo, este es un Cervantes obsesionado por lograr un triunfo literario que parece imposible realizar. Entre sus obstáculos para lograrlo esta Luis Lara, un amigo de infancia que, consumido por la envidia y los celos, luego se convierte en su peor enemigo.
Jaime Manrique ha logrado una gran novela que educa, entretiene y ofrece una nueva interpretación de una vida literaria extraordinaria que merece ser examinada.--Ricardo Antoni