Mairal, Pedro
The missing year of Juan Salvatierra
from English by Dagmar Ploetz.
Hanser, August 2010
hides the secret of a father in the Chase painted his biography - a "total" image that sixty years Living on the border between Argentina and Uruguay says.
the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra falls from his horse: He lives in short supply, but will be silenced for ever. Self-taught, he has devoted himself to painting from now on, with twenty he began to record his life on giant screen roles. So magnificent like sequences occur in neoprimitivem style, in which Salvatierra will capture the fluidity of reality: a street party for example, which is transformed during the military dictatorship in a raid or a painter, who conducted the landscape like an orchestra. As Salvatierra dies, his son, Miguel travels from Buenos Aires to save the almost four kilometers measured work of art. But the canvas roll missing for the year 1961. It begins an adventurous search across the river, the Miguel reveals the secret of his family and the touchstone of its existence. A visually stunning novel in the best tradition of Argentine, who explored the connection between art and life, and offers subtle insights into past and present of the country.
Mairal Pedro was born in 1970 in Buenos Aires. Adolfo Bioy Casares, Guillermo Cabrera Infante and awarded him as one of the most original voices of Latin American literature, the Premio ClarÃn. Last published the novel A Night with Sabrina Love (2002), which was also filmed.
The missing year of Juan Salvatierra
from English by Dagmar Ploetz.
Hanser, August 2010
hides the secret of a father in the Chase painted his biography - a "total" image that sixty years Living on the border between Argentina and Uruguay says.
the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra falls from his horse: He lives in short supply, but will be silenced for ever. Self-taught, he has devoted himself to painting from now on, with twenty he began to record his life on giant screen roles. So magnificent like sequences occur in neoprimitivem style, in which Salvatierra will capture the fluidity of reality: a street party for example, which is transformed during the military dictatorship in a raid or a painter, who conducted the landscape like an orchestra. As Salvatierra dies, his son, Miguel travels from Buenos Aires to save the almost four kilometers measured work of art. But the canvas roll missing for the year 1961. It begins an adventurous search across the river, the Miguel reveals the secret of his family and the touchstone of its existence. A visually stunning novel in the best tradition of Argentine, who explored the connection between art and life, and offers subtle insights into past and present of the country.
Mairal Pedro was born in 1970 in Buenos Aires. Adolfo Bioy Casares, Guillermo Cabrera Infante and awarded him as one of the most original voices of Latin American literature, the Premio ClarÃn. Last published the novel A Night with Sabrina Love (2002), which was also filmed.
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