Por primera vez un volumen re???ne la historia de Espa???a escrita por Arturo P???rez-Reverte durante m???s de cuatro a???os en su columna ???Patente de corso??? del XL Semanal. Un relato ameno, personal, a ratos ir???nico, pero siempre ???nico, de nuestra accidentada historia a trav???s de los siglos. Una obra concebida por el autor para, en palabras suyas, ???divertirme, releer y disfrutar; un pretexto para mirar atr???s desde los tiempos remotos hasta el presente, reflexionar un poco sobre ello y contarlo por ...
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Por primera vez un volumen re???ne la historia de Espa???a escrita por Arturo P???rez-Reverte durante m???s de cuatro a???os en su columna ???Patente de corso??? del XL Semanal. Un relato ameno, personal, a ratos ir???nico, pero siempre ???nico, de nuestra accidentada historia a trav???s de los siglos. Una obra concebida por el autor para, en palabras suyas, ???divertirme, releer y disfrutar; un pretexto para mirar atr???s desde los tiempos remotos hasta el presente, reflexionar un poco sobre ello y contarlo por escrito de una manera poco ortodoxa.??? A lo largo de los 91 cap???tulos m???s el ep???logo de los que consta el libro, Arturo P???rez-Reverte narra los principales acontecimientos ocurridos desde los or???genes de nuestra historia y hasta el final de la Transici???n con una mirada subjetiva, construida con las dosis exactas de lecturas, experiencia y sentido com???n. ???La misma mirada con que escribo novelas y art???culos -dice el autor-; no la eleg??? yo, sino que es resultado de todas esas cosas: la visi???n, ???cida m???s a menudo que dulce, de quien, como dice un personaje de una de mis novelas, sabe que ser l???cido en Espa???a aparej??? siempre mucha amargura, mucha soledad y mucha desesperanza.???.- Arturo P???rez-Reverte ENGLISH DESCRIPTION For the first time, one volume gathers the history of Spain as written by Arturo P???rez-Reverte over the course of more than four years in his "Patente de corso" (" Carte Blanche" ) column for XL Semanal . An entertaining, personal, and sometimes ironic but always unique tale of Spain's turbulent history throughout the centuries. A work conceptualized by the author to, in his words, "entertain me, re-read and enjoy; a pretext for looking back through time from the very beginning until the present, reflecting a little about it, and telling it in writing in an unorthodox way." Throughout the 91 chapters plus the epilogue of the book, Arturo P???rez-Reverte narrates the main events from Spain's origin and up through the end of the Transition with a subjective view, made up of precise measures of reading, experience, and common sense. "The same view with which I write novels and articles," says the author, "... I didn't choose it myself; it's the result of all those things: as one of my novel's characters says it, it's the vision, harsh yet frequently sweet, of someone who knows that being lucid in Spain has always entailed bitterness, loneliness, and despair." -Arturo P???rez-Reverte
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