ALAPE WRITTEN LET YOUR OWN "NO"
New Book: 'Conversation with the absence and Other Stories'
El Pais, May 8, 2007 http://www.elpais.com .co/historico/may082007/VIVIR/alape.html
Arturo Alape Photo El País, Cali writer and painter.
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The work includes several unpublished stories and reviews published in some newspapers. In the next two years the family of journalist and painter edited two posthumous works. Arturo Alape
always repeated the same phrase: "I've visited my country on foot."
The work includes several unpublished stories and reviews published in some newspapers. In the next two years the family of journalist and painter edited two posthumous works. Arturo Alape
always repeated the same phrase: "I've visited my country on foot."
The same expression is demonstrated through his many writings, his essays, novels, paintings, and now in its compilation of stories 'Conversation with the absence and Other Stories' , leaving this week to the Colombian market, As a posthumous tribute. is the first of three books that the writer and painter vallecaucano made ready before his death on October 7, and their three children gathered last will.
The book contains 15 stories that were written in the second half of the nineties.
Six of these stories were published in 2002 in his 'I am a book in prison', where there are about forty chronicles the author, published over ten years working in newspapers such as The Spectator and El Tiempo.
This time, Alape returned and changed the order to put them together with nine other unpublished stories and, thus, further contribute to that once called the most interesting narrative: "leave a memory."
As he himself once said, several of the 15 stories that are part of 'Conversation with the absence and Other Stories' are based on situations experienced by himself.
other parts of the stories heard by the Arturo Alape journalist in his extensive travels throughout the Colombian geography. Of these tours were born of the "whispers in the voice of the traveler," as say the pen Cali.
"These stories have a common denominator the trip as a life experience. It is the journey that man inward, to find the answer to questions never met, or never made, "they say in the book's introduction, the editors-Zawadzki Carlos Vasquez and Manuel Ruiz Montealegre.
The book's title comes from one of his stories, 'Conversation with the absence', where a woman not to recount the dream he had with a man who is no longer with her.
addition to this book, the heirs of the work of Arturo Alape Announce 'The march of Coreguaje' and 'The train of the jungle' , two of his unpublished works are published in the next two years under seal Editorial Seix Barral, which distributes Planet.
The key data
The storybook 'Conversation with the absence and Other Stories', the Cali Arturo Alape, is published by the publishing house Seix Barral, has 132 pages and costs $ 32,000. It is available in all bookstores. ---
updated: GRA NTC May 8, 2007
