" Madrid nació muy tarde. Tiene la misma edad que una ciudad colonial. Eso la hace extraña en Europa: demasiado joven para poseer una belleza asentada, carece del casco medieval tan común en otras capitales del viejo continente. Nació después de la Edad Media, ya en la segunda era urbana de la cultura occidental. Tiene esa peculiaridad que implica una ausencia en la tradición, casi una absence of content. Nor is it a possessive or city is a city that is no longer possess, but it is a very hospitable city, partly because recent city is far from exhausted itself, and every time has a more open structure, so that breakwater be all going to be Spains breakwater worldwide Hispanic. "
This city hospital, not too old breakwater Hispanic world and even more distant worlds culturally - evoking Jesus Ferrero in the Epilogue, this book is dedicated " Madrid Springs " 1, subtitled "Stories Madrid Notebook" as I finished reading.
I, long ago, fond tales and short stories. They are for me the double advantage of its brevity and variety. Are read in a pis-pas, regardless of the order of reading, and if one dislikes or bored, you always are the desire and hope that the following be more enjoyable and fun.
same happens in the book before us and in which the compiler, the Maligro Juan Manuel Gonzalez, invited to contribute to 23 writers Madrid or settled long ago in Madrid, authors, each from a short story that its main character or background and history to the multicultural capital of Spain. As we reported in the credits page book "The idea springs from Madrid came the fall of 2002 in the literary circles of Madrid, which includes, among others, writers Juan Manuel González, Joaquín Arnaiz, Eugenia Rico, Miguel Angel del Arco, Paula Izquierdo, Fernando Martinez Lainez, Manuel Francisco Reina and Claudin Victor. "
has been Madrid, a city heavily favored in the literature. This is no time or opportunity to relate to all the writers who have dealt with Madrid since Cervantes and Lope de Vega Ramon Gomez de la Serna, through Mesonero, Galdós and Baroja. On the other hand, do not know if there is a fairly decent anthology, "it seems impossible to complete," author of stories Madrid 2. In any case this extensive naming names could be attached more or less known, which appear here and in the order under which the compiler has placed his stories are: José María Merino, Luis Mateo Diaz, Antonio Hernández, Pilar Paz Pasamar, Juan Manuel González, Tomás Val Joaquin Arnaiz, Eugenia Rico, Carlos G. Reigosa, Javier Villa, Juan Van-Halen, Joaquin Leguina, Aurelio Loureiro, Miguel Ángel del Arco, Paula Izquierdo, Fernando Martinez Lainez, Manuel Francisco Reina, Victor Claudin, Francisco Muñoz Guerrero, Guillermo Galván, Manuel Rico, Sabas Martin and Jesus Ferrero. Naturally
stories, even with a common denominator in Madrid are very different and of unequal value. I liked alike, the first two, each in his style. that of José María Merino, entitled " The impatience of the dreamer," about a real person Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, who convinced the King Felipe II on the navigability of the Tagus River, upstream from Aranjuez to Lisbon combines with the wisdom that he alone can do, the historical narrative in the fiction of what might have been but was not. Closer to the historical chronicle and literary Luis Mateo Díaz in " the balcony of Austrias", evokes the past architectural grandeur of this magnet is the Plaza Mayor, well known and traveled daily by the author.
From the third of these stories, "Betrayals age" of Antonio Hernández , I am left with the final phrase Holy God, as women like to complicate the world!. After the intimate and perhaps autobiographical, " Substitute" by Pilar Paz Pasamar , scored as one of my favorites, just the compiler, Juan Manuel González , whose curriculum vitae appears generously detailed in the book's jacket, unlike the authors of which the reader would have appreciated some references. Its title is " The Carabancheles. Colony Press. Winter 1974 ". The location of the past, writes Gonzalez, is in our soul and with the nostalgia of the time escaped, the author recalls a childhood (his childhood?) Elapsed in the Madrid neighborhood of small hotels, created in his day as a holiday for journalists and turned in a working class neighborhood.
" final station" by Thomas Val, is, for me (us equal rights, we individualized tastes) best story of this book, worthy of inclusion in an anthology of fantasy stories, along with the most famous of the masters of the genre. It has intrigue, mystery, moral, fine spinning and better written. I enjoyed reading. I want to read more about this author.
discrete Only the following two: "The dam " by Joaquin Arnáiz and "Selena " of Eugenia Rico (by the way, what to do with Madrid?). Cult story and somewhat pretentious "The illusion that never ceases " of Carlos G. Reigosa and disturbing the excellent " window" of Javier Villan .
I also liked " reptiles Fund" of Juan Van-Halen , with some political taste and feel of another era, based, as the author tells me in a real event. " Consenting Adults," by Joaquin Leguina is little more than a joke long a story.
Bored, always in my opinion, is the story of "I came looking for my name " of Aurelio Loureiro. Effective , "below Castellana" by Miguel Ángel del Arco and a little thing " My imaginary lover" Paula Izquierdo of .
I had fun the official story of "Rodriguez" entitled "Madrid in the summer and money Baden-Baden" of Fernando Martinez Lainez, though, Fernando, the complete phrase is "In Madrid, in summer, without family and money Baden-Baden "and is attributed to Francisco Silvela, not the Count of Romanones.
tremendously which is titled" Gender Portera "of Manuel Francisco Reina . social realist, also in language "Space Weather Madrid" by Victor Claudin , as that later (I miss, for the first time order), "Via Crucis " of Sabas Martin .
the story is kind of Francisco Muñoz Guerrero " One afternoon in the rocky " very good "Stigma cal" Guillermo Galván of and, above all, "Barrio de la Alegria" , of Manuel Rico, as someone else's notebook, in search of lost time in the transition from childhood to "shaky ground" of adolescence.
finishes off the notebook, the Epilogue of Jesus Ferrero partially transcribed.
Finally, there are as many opinions as opinionated. These are, Friend @ follower of this blog, my reading preferences in this book of tales docked, or rather, shall we say, stuck in the springs of a Madrid permanent "status work."
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
December, 2009
This city hospital, not too old breakwater Hispanic world and even more distant worlds culturally - evoking Jesus Ferrero in the Epilogue, this book is dedicated " Madrid Springs " 1, subtitled "Stories Madrid Notebook" as I finished reading.
I, long ago, fond tales and short stories. They are for me the double advantage of its brevity and variety. Are read in a pis-pas, regardless of the order of reading, and if one dislikes or bored, you always are the desire and hope that the following be more enjoyable and fun.
same happens in the book before us and in which the compiler, the Maligro Juan Manuel Gonzalez, invited to contribute to 23 writers Madrid or settled long ago in Madrid, authors, each from a short story that its main character or background and history to the multicultural capital of Spain. As we reported in the credits page book "The idea springs from Madrid came the fall of 2002 in the literary circles of Madrid, which includes, among others, writers Juan Manuel González, Joaquín Arnaiz, Eugenia Rico, Miguel Angel del Arco, Paula Izquierdo, Fernando Martinez Lainez, Manuel Francisco Reina and Claudin Victor. "
has been Madrid, a city heavily favored in the literature. This is no time or opportunity to relate to all the writers who have dealt with Madrid since Cervantes and Lope de Vega Ramon Gomez de la Serna, through Mesonero, Galdós and Baroja. On the other hand, do not know if there is a fairly decent anthology, "it seems impossible to complete," author of stories Madrid 2. In any case this extensive naming names could be attached more or less known, which appear here and in the order under which the compiler has placed his stories are: José María Merino, Luis Mateo Diaz, Antonio Hernández, Pilar Paz Pasamar, Juan Manuel González, Tomás Val Joaquin Arnaiz, Eugenia Rico, Carlos G. Reigosa, Javier Villa, Juan Van-Halen, Joaquin Leguina, Aurelio Loureiro, Miguel Ángel del Arco, Paula Izquierdo, Fernando Martinez Lainez, Manuel Francisco Reina, Victor Claudin, Francisco Muñoz Guerrero, Guillermo Galván, Manuel Rico, Sabas Martin and Jesus Ferrero. Naturally
stories, even with a common denominator in Madrid are very different and of unequal value. I liked alike, the first two, each in his style. that of José María Merino, entitled " The impatience of the dreamer," about a real person Italian engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, who convinced the King Felipe II on the navigability of the Tagus River, upstream from Aranjuez to Lisbon combines with the wisdom that he alone can do, the historical narrative in the fiction of what might have been but was not. Closer to the historical chronicle and literary Luis Mateo Díaz in " the balcony of Austrias", evokes the past architectural grandeur of this magnet is the Plaza Mayor, well known and traveled daily by the author.
From the third of these stories, "Betrayals age" of Antonio Hernández , I am left with the final phrase Holy God, as women like to complicate the world!. After the intimate and perhaps autobiographical, " Substitute" by Pilar Paz Pasamar , scored as one of my favorites, just the compiler, Juan Manuel González , whose curriculum vitae appears generously detailed in the book's jacket, unlike the authors of which the reader would have appreciated some references. Its title is " The Carabancheles. Colony Press. Winter 1974 ". The location of the past, writes Gonzalez, is in our soul and with the nostalgia of the time escaped, the author recalls a childhood (his childhood?) Elapsed in the Madrid neighborhood of small hotels, created in his day as a holiday for journalists and turned in a working class neighborhood.
" final station" by Thomas Val, is, for me (us equal rights, we individualized tastes) best story of this book, worthy of inclusion in an anthology of fantasy stories, along with the most famous of the masters of the genre. It has intrigue, mystery, moral, fine spinning and better written. I enjoyed reading. I want to read more about this author.
discrete Only the following two: "The dam " by Joaquin Arnáiz and "Selena " of Eugenia Rico (by the way, what to do with Madrid?). Cult story and somewhat pretentious "The illusion that never ceases " of Carlos G. Reigosa and disturbing the excellent " window" of Javier Villan .
I also liked " reptiles Fund" of Juan Van-Halen , with some political taste and feel of another era, based, as the author tells me in a real event. " Consenting Adults," by Joaquin Leguina is little more than a joke long a story.
Bored, always in my opinion, is the story of "I came looking for my name " of Aurelio Loureiro. Effective , "below Castellana" by Miguel Ángel del Arco and a little thing " My imaginary lover" Paula Izquierdo of .
I had fun the official story of "Rodriguez" entitled "Madrid in the summer and money Baden-Baden" of Fernando Martinez Lainez, though, Fernando, the complete phrase is "In Madrid, in summer, without family and money Baden-Baden "and is attributed to Francisco Silvela, not the Count of Romanones.
tremendously which is titled" Gender Portera "of Manuel Francisco Reina . social realist, also in language "Space Weather Madrid" by Victor Claudin , as that later (I miss, for the first time order), "Via Crucis " of Sabas Martin .
the story is kind of Francisco Muñoz Guerrero " One afternoon in the rocky " very good "Stigma cal" Guillermo Galván of and, above all, "Barrio de la Alegria" , of Manuel Rico, as someone else's notebook, in search of lost time in the transition from childhood to "shaky ground" of adolescence.
finishes off the notebook, the Epilogue of Jesus Ferrero partially transcribed.
Finally, there are as many opinions as opinionated. These are, Friend @ follower of this blog, my reading preferences in this book of tales docked, or rather, shall we say, stuck in the springs of a Madrid permanent "status work."
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
December, 2009
Notes.
1. Springs Madrid. Notebook Madrid stories. Compiler: Juan Manuel González. Library of Madrid. Silex, 2003.
2. Later I found that the Community of Madrid published in 1992 "Madrid in the novel. "Studies and Julia Barella selection. Foreword by Carlos Gomez Gual, in six volumes.
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