Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando.
Una niña a quien un castigo del cielo convierte en tortuga y termina siendo la triste atracción de una feria, un parque de diversiones con elefantes que dan a luz a saltimbanquis, una cautiva emparedada en un monasterio, un sádico e infame revolucionario a quien la Historia relega al olvido… Las fronteras entre lo aparente y lo veraz se desdibujan en los catorce relatos de este libro que son, a su vez, fisuras hacia realidades donde imperan lo singular y lo inesperado.
En El viento distante –antología de cuentos que apareció en 1963, pero que el autor siguió trabajando durante décadas–, José Emilio Pacheco se adentra al delirio de la existencia y su inevitable colisión con la realidad que nos circunda.
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An invaluable legacy that invites us to keep reading, writing, and dreaming.
A girl turned into a turtle by a heavenly punishment, becoming the sad attraction of a fair; an amusement park with elephants giving birth to acrobats; a captive walled up in a monastery; a sadistic and infamous revolutionary whom history consigns to oblivion… The boundaries between the apparent and the true blur in the fourteen stories of this book, which are, in turn, fissures into realities where the singular and the unexpected reign.
In El viento distante–an anthology of stories that first appeared in 1963 but which the author continued to work on for decades–José Emilio Pacheco delves into the delirium of existence and its inevitable collision with the reality that surrounds us.
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Hi, I'm Jose Emilio Pacheco
On June 30, 1939, José Emilio Pacheco was born in Mexico City. He studied at the Autonomous National University of Mexico. After graduating, Pacheco worked as the Assistant Editor for Revista de la Universidad de Mexico, and then as Associate Editor to La Cultura en Mexico. He went on to teach literature at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom.
Pacheco's first book of poetry, Los elementos de la noche (The Elements of Night), was published in 1963, when he was barely twenty. This was followed by a novel, El viento distante (1963). His other collections of poetry include El reposo del fuego (The Resting Place of Fire, 1966), Irás y no volverás (And So You Go, Never to Come Back, 1973), Islas a la deriva (In the Drift of the Islands, 1976), Desde Entonces (Since Then, 1980), Los trabajos del mar (The Labors of the Sea, 1983), and An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (illustrated by Francisco Toledo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, 1993).
Pacheco is a well-known translator of works by Samuel Beckett, Yevgeny Yevtuschenko, and Albert Einstein, among others. He was awarded with the Mexican National Poetry Prize in 1969 for his collection No me preguntas cómo pasa el tiempo (Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes By). His collection El silencio de la luna (The Silence of the Moon) was awarded the Premio José Asunción Silva for the best book in Spanish to appear in any country between 1990 and 1995. Pacheco is considered the most important Mexican poet of the generation following Octavio Paz and Alfonso Reyes.
