La Loca De La Casa by Rosa Montero

La Loca De La Casa by Rosa Montero

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La Loca De La Casa by Rosa Montero

Un libro sobre la fantas a y los sue os, sobre la locura y la pasi n, sobre los miedos y las dudas de los escritores, pero tambi n de los lectores.

Este libro es una novela, un ensayo, una autobiograf a. La loca de la casa es la obra m s personal de Rosa Montero, un recorrido por los entresijos de la fantas a, de la creaci n art stica y de los recuerdos m s secretos. Es un cofre de mago del que emergen objetos inesperados y asombrosos. La autora emprende un viaje al interior en un juego narrativo lleno de sorpresas. En l se mezclan literatura y vida en un c ctel afrodis aco de biograf as ajenas y autobiograf a novelada. Y, as , descubrimos que el gran Goethe adulaba a los poderosos hasta extremos rid culos, que Tolstoi era un energ meno, que Montero, de ni a, fue una enana, y que, con veinte a os, mantuvo un estrafalario y desternillante romance con un famoso actor. Pero no deber amos fiarnos de todo lo que la autora cuentasobre s misma: los recuerdos no son siempre lo que parecen. Un libro sobre la fantas a y los sue os, sobre la locura y la pasi n, sobre los miedos y las dudas de los escritores, pero tambi n de los lectores. La loca de la casa es, sobre todo, la t rrida historia de amor y salvaci n que hay entre Rosa Montero y su imaginaci n.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

This novel, essay, and/or autobiography is a journey through the mystery of fantasies, of artistic creation and Montero's most secret memories. She undertakes a trip to her inner self in a narrative game full of surprises. It is a magician's hat from which she reveals amazing and unexpected events. In this book, she mixes literature and life in an aphrodisiacal cocktail of other people's biographies and a semi-fictional autobiography. This is, above all, a torrid story of love and salvation between her and her imagination.

Rosa Montero was born in Madrid and studied Periodism and Psychology. Cronica del desamor (1979), La funcion Delta (1981), Te tratare como a reina (1983), Amado Amo (1988), Temblor (1990), Belle y Oscura (1993), La hija del canibal (1997, Premio Primavera de Novela), El corazon del Tartaro (2001), Framio Roman Primeur (2006), Framio Roman Primeur (2007), Framio Roman Comic (2011; Premio al Mejor Comic 2011 por votacion popular en el Salon International del Comic de Barcelona), La ridicula idea de never volver a ver (2013; Premio de la Critica de Madrid 2014), El peso del corazon (2015), and La carne (2016) are some of his works. He has also published a collection of short stories, Amantes y Enemigos (Alfaguara, 1998; Premio Circulo de Criticos de Chile 1999), as well as two biographies, Historias de Mujeres y Pasiones, and children's stories, as well as interviews and articles. Since the end of 1976, she has worked exclusively for the newspaper El Pais, where she was the chief editor of the daily supplement from 1980 to 1981.

He won the Premio Mundi de Entrevistas in 1978, the Premio Nacional de Periodismo para reportajes y articulos literarios in 1980, the Premio de la Asociacion de la Prensa de Madrid a toda una life professional in 2005, and the Premio Nacional de las Letras in 2017. Su obra has been translated into more than twenty languages, and she has received honorary doctorates from the University of Puerto Rico and the International Columnists of the World Award in 2014. If you want to learn more, go to www.rosamontero.es, like her on Facebook at Rosa Montero, or follow her on Twitter at @BrunaHusky.

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ISBN 13 9788466313285
ISBN 10 8466313281
Title La Loca De La Casa
Author Rosa Montero
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Punto de Lectura, S.L.
Year published 2004-06-01
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.