Name: El Diccionario del Diablo (in Spanish)
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Author: Ambrose Bierce
ISBN: 9788497644754

portada El Diccionario del Diablo (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rodolfo Walsh

Publisher

Edimat Libros

Year

2005

Language

Spanish

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8497644751

ISBN13

9788497644754

Edited in

España

Edition No.

2018

Synopsis "El Diccionario del Diablo (in Spanish)"

Ambrose Bierce, el inclasificable escritor y periodista norteamericano, se ganó con todo merecimiento el sobrenombre de «Bitter Bierce» como premio a la sarcástica e intensa exactitud con que manifestó su desprecio hacia la necedad humana. Su inteligencia lo abarcó todo; descreyó de todo, y lo devolvió todo convertido en una literatura algo más corrosiva que el vitriolo. Un día, a finales de 1913, harto de sus contemporáneos, enfermo y consumido por los azares de una vida marcada por el inconformismo y la independencia, cruza la frontera de México y desaparece misteriosamente...En El Diccionario del Diablo, Ambrose Bierce afila sus armas para ofrecernos una burla total y despiadada del género humano, de sus beneméritas instituciones, de sus presupuestos lógicos, de sus ideas más conspicuas, de sus nimias creencias. Bierce, maestro del humor negro, se convierte en diabólico lexicógrafo a fin de provocar una rebelión contra las ideas recibidas, contra las ideas de los que reinan, contra las ideas que se establecen impunemente...

Rodolfo Walsh

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Rodolfo Walsh (Lamarque, 1927 – Buenos Aires, 1977) was an Argentine journalist, writer, and activist, considered a pioneer of narrative journalism in Latin America. His most emblematic work, Operation Massacre (1957), is recognized as the first non-fiction novel in the Hispanic American sphere, predating Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. In it, Walsh exposed the clandestine shootings of civilians during the 1956 dictatorship. His political commitment led him to join the Montoneros organization and, in 1977, he was murdered by the military dictatorship after publishing his famous Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta.

Among his most notable works are: Variations in Red (1953), a collection of detective stories; Who Killed Rosendo? (1969), an investigation into the murder of union leader Rosendo García; The Satanowsky Case (1973), about the homicide of lawyer Marcos Satanowsky; and A Kilo of Gold (1967), a book of stories that includes "The Earthly Professions" and "Footnote". His output spans genres such as chronicle, short story, and political essay, cementing his legacy as a key figure in committed literature and journalism in Argentina.

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