Product Description: Carlos Prieto nos ofrece en este libro una breve historia de la laudería y de la trayectoria de sus principales exponentes, una relación de la música para violonchelo a través de los siglos y un anecdotario de sus viajes y conciertos con el chelo Piatti, que tiene más de 20 años en su compañía...read more

In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art—a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States. The Piatti filled sacred spaces, such as the Santa Cueva de Cádiz, with its incomparable voice. It also spent time in more profane places, including New York City bars, where it served as a guarantee for unpaid liquor tabs. The Piatti narrowly escaped Nazi Germany in 1935 and was once even left lying in the street all night. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, with whom it has given concerts around the world.In this delightful book, Mr. Prieto recounts the adventurous life of his beloved "Cello Prieto," tracing its history through each of its previous owners from Stradivari in 1720 to himself. He then describes his noteworthy experiences of playing the Piatti cello, with which he has premiered some eighty compositions. In this part of their mutual story, Prieto gives a concise summary of his own remarkable career and his relationships with many illustrious personalities, including Igor Stravinsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriel García Márquez.To make the story of his cello complete, Mr. Prieto also provides a brief history of violin making and a succinct review of cello music from Stradivari to the present. He highlights the work of composers from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, for whose music he has long been an advocate and principal performer. Thus, The Adventures of a Cello offers not only the first biography of a musical instrument but also an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers.

Product Description: This comprehensive compendium of Mutis' poetry includes six decades of published work ending in 2003 with Summa de Maqroll el Gaviero. Poesia reunida, a work that at times shows the private life of el Gaviero, the main character of Mutis' works, and at times reveals an intimate portrait of its creator...read more

Product Description: CRONICA REGIA Y ALABANZA DEL REINO

Product Description: The poetic early Latin American fiction of Alvaro Mutis, winner of the Cervantes Prize for Spanish literature.poetic, has now been translated into English for the first time by Canada’s Beatriz Hausner. These fabulist tales invoke a vivid and surreal environment in which the drama of human life takes many shapes...read more

Product Description: Este libro de Álvaro Mutis (Colombia, 929) reúne la novela corta, el ensayo, la crónica de un encuentro excepcional y un diario de prisión. En estos textos la vida y la muerte se afirman simultáneamente ya que el creador de Maqroll el Gaviero sabe que el arte medita en todo momento sobre la muerte para perpetuar la fuerza de la vida...read more

Product Description: Muchos saben del talento para leer en voz alta de alvaro Mutis gracias a su participacion en el doblaje de una famosa serie televisiva. En esta edicion de la coleccion Entre Voces, el creador de Maqroll el Gaviero lee algunos pasajes de su obra narrativa y poetica.

Product Description: Álvaro Mutis es uno de los más reconocidos escritores de la literatura hispanoamericana. El lector de estas páginas confirmará que la elegante prosa y desbordada imaginación de este autor lo consolidan como uno de los más distinguidos artífices del idioma español y un excelente narrador cuyos sueños se traducen a cualquier idioma...read more

Product Description: Book by Mutis, Alvaro

Product Description: La voz de Álvaro Mutis (Colombia, 1929), considerada como una de las más altas de América, tiene la cualidad de respetar la verdad de la palabra. Bajo la sombra de Maqroll esta Summa incluye la poesía completa que escribió entre 1948 y 1988...read more

Product Description: Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Seven entertaining novellas about the charismatic Maqroll follow him all over the world, finding gold in a South American mine, on a ship transporting Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, and back home caring for the son of a friend who died tragically. (General Fiction) (view table of contents)

Product Description: The next installment in a highly acclaimed saga by an author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called "one of the greatest writers of our time." In the first novella in this volume, Amirbar, Maqroll finds gold in an abandoned mine in a South American jungle and is nearly burned alive by a woman companion...read more

Four novellas about the charismatic Maqroll follow him all over the world, finding gold in a South American mine, on a ship transporting Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, and back home caring for the son of a friend who died tragically.

Product Description: Octavio Paz ha dicho del poeta colombiano: "Mutis es un poeta de la estirpe más rara en español: rico sin ostentación y sin despilfarro. Necesidad de decirlo todo y conciencia de que nada se dice. Amor por la palabra, desesperación ante la palabra, odio a la palabra: extremos del poeta...read more

Product Description: EL zapatero Hans decide exterminar a los niños de Alter y culpar al flautista de Hammelin.

Three novellas by the new Latin American writer chronicle the life and adventures of Maqroll--adventurer, sailor, entrepreneur, and student of St. Francis. National ad/promo.