Cine. Toda la historia

A rich man had a garden in which he had planted pear trees sprung from seeds taken from Eden. If eaten, these pears were said to have rejuvenating properties. Since he never had the opportunity to sample his pears -- because the fruit was always stolen from the bough -- he charged his children with finding the thief. But only his youngest will undertake the task and find the enchanted dove.

Con su habitual ironía, el autor lleva al lector a compartir con él su itinerario personal, sus mentores, los que con sus dudas y negaciones lo condujeron a la trágica y jubilosa afirmación de su ser, sus lecturas, aquellas que lo marcaron para abandonar el tedio académico y poder gozar así de sus veladas incursiones por la narrativa.

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

"En la hoja de un árbol" y "El Cuerno de la Abundancia" se unen en este libro luego de atravesar un proceso poco común: trasvasarse de la escritura para cine a la literatura. En el primer relato el narrador Arturo Arango intenta recrear para un cortometraje las vivencias adolescentes de un amigo, compartiendo con él sus dudas creativas. En el segundo, Arturo acompaña a Juan Carlos Tabío, director de la película, en sus viajes de investigación a Yaragüey, un pequeño poblado donde muchos esperan una herencia millonaria. En ambos relatos el narrador persiste en una misma idea: "el arte...