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Illegal MiniBiographies. Writers

By:Heberto Gamero Contín
Publisher:Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Print ISBN:9781547585144
eText ISBN:9781547585144
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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Sixty unique and revealing stories about some of the most famous writers in history. What was going on in the head of Juan Rulfo when, as a travel agent, he drove along the endless roads of Mexico? What did Hemingway say to the Italian that he was carrying on his back before giving him to the Allies and thereby saving his life? What was the reaction of an admirer to the refusal of the Swedish Academy to award the Nobel Prize to Jorge Luis Borges? Who brought red roses to the tomb of Oscar Wilde? How were the last moments of Horacio Quiroga or Stefan Zweig? Nabokov, had he ever dreamed of returning to Russia? Sixty unique and revealing stories about some of the most famous writers in history.