Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

Campeche, o, Los diablejos de la melancolía

Juan Villoro

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Martín Caparrós

Cristina Rivera Garza

Gabriela Wiener

Rodrigo Fresán

Alberto Fuguet

Guillem Martínez

Marcela Turati

Eileen Truax

Julio Villanueva Chang

Leila Guerriero

María Moreno

Cristian Alarcón

Juan Pablo Meneses

Alberto Salcedo Ramos

Fabrizio Mejía Madrid

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Sabrina Duque

Jordi Costa

Juanita León

Maye Primera

Jaime Bedoya

Mónica Baró

En el décimo aniversario de su edición original, Mejor que ficción. Crónicas ejemplares regresa a las librerías con un nuevo prólogo y con nuevos textos. Refuerza así su condición de antología de referencia del periodismo narrativo en nuestra lengua, al tiempo que se puede leer como una vuelta al mundo y como un catálogo de estrategias y estilos para contar la difícil realidad de este cambio de siglo. El libro contiene crónicas de Juan Villoro, Leila Guerriero, Sabrina Duque, Jordi Costa, Alberto Fuguet, Alberto Salcedo Ramos, Eileen Truax, Juan Pablo Meneses, Juanita León, Cristian Alarcón, Marcela Turati, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Maye Primera, María Moreno, Julio Villanueva Chang, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jaime Bedoya, Rodrigo Fresán, Mónica Baró, Guillem Martínez, Gabriela Wiener, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá y Martín Caparrós. Incluye además un extenso diccionario de cronistas iberoamericanos, con centenares de invitaciones a seguir leyendo.

Crónicas ejemplares

Mejor que ficción

DIVA lyrical narration and examination of the life and death of Rafael Cortijo, an Afro-Caribbean drummer whose group--Cortijo y su Combo--influenced Puerto Rican society and music./div

El Entierro De Cortijo / Cortijo's Wake

San Juan: Memoir of a City conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture. In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodríguez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own novels. On the most tangible level, the city is a place of cabarets and cockfighting clubs, flâneurs and beach bums, smoke-filled bars and honking automobiles. Poised between a colonial past and a commercial future, the San Juan he portrays feels at times perilously close to the pitfalls of modernization. Tenement houses and fading mansions yield to strip malls and Tastee Freezes; asphalt hems in jacarandas and palm trees. "In Puerto Rico," he muses, "life is not simply cruel, it is also busy erasing our tracks." Through this book—available here in English for the first time—Rodríguez Juliá resists that erasure, thoughtfully etching a palimpsest that preserves images of the city where he grew up and rejoicing in the one where he still lives. Best Books for Regional General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association

Memoir of a City

San Juan

Edgardo Rodriguez Julia

A compilation of 33 literary essays written by Rodriguez Julia for the Puerto Rican press between 1989 and 2002. This work features 13 unpublished essays that focus in particular on Puerto Rican writers.

Mapa de una pasión literaria

Sol de medianoche

A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader, Cortijo (1928–1982) revolutionized the country’s musical culture. His band, Cortijo y Su Combo, captivated Caribbean and Latin American audiences as it emerged in the mid-1950s. Immensely popular across Puerto Rican social classes, the band both “modernized” the traditional vernacular forms of bomba and plena and forcefully reestablished their African and working-class roots. The group’s innovations have been integral to salsa since the 1960s. Winding through the streets of working-class San Juan with Cortijo’s funeral procession, Rodríguez Juliá’s autobiographical chronicle provides a rare portrait of the impoverished society from which Cortijo’s music emerged. Along with detailed renderings of grief-stricken mourners—including Cortijo’s childhood friend and fellow musician, the celebrated singer Ismael ("Maelo") Rivera—Rodríguez Juliá records his feelings as he, a light-skinned, middle-class writer, confronts the world of poor black Puerto Ricans. The author’s masterful shifting of linguistic registers, his acute sensitivity to Puerto Rican social codes, his broad knowledge of popular music, and his sardonic ruminations on death and immortality make this one of the most widely read books of modern Puerto Rican literature. Well-known critic and cultural historian Juan Flores has provided a scrupulous translation of Rodríguez Juliá’s text and an introduction situating the book in relation to Puerto Rican music and culture and the careers of Cortijo and Rodríguez Juliá.

Cortijo’s Wake / El entierro de Cortijo

La piscina de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá es una novela en la cual se estrechan un notable ejercicio de la prosa, precisa e intensa, y la indagación en los vericuetos profundos de la memoria, donde se sumerge hasta sus últimas consecuencias el protagonista de la obra. La escena inicial, centrada en la agonía del padre, dispara el acto de la rememoración, un desplazamiento al pasado, a la infancia y la casa familiar donde se cuela la luz del Caribe que, como en El espíritu de la luz, connota las paradojas del revelar y el velar. El adulto, desde la perspectiva infantil, redescubre cuán ominosa puede volverse la casa familiar, con sus rincones acogedores pero también con sus espacios secretos, siniestros, que muestran lo frágiles que pueden tornarse los lazos más íntimos. El clima enrarecido de la opresión familiar y la soterrada violencia se desplazan hacia el afuera de la casa, en dos momentos memorables por su contundencia narrativa, la llegada del huracán y un partido de béisbol entre Puerto Rico y Cuba que termina a los golpes. Una novela concentrada en los avatares de la subjetividad y de la memoria doliente, en la cual el narrador nos conduce con eficacia hacia un final que echa nueva luz sobre los enigmas y giros de la trama.

La Piscina

Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

Books

Your next favorite book is out there