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Me sorprendió que la erupción de un volcán a mediados de 1815, en Indonesia, hubiera sido una de las causas eficientes del nacimiento en Occidente de la moderna leyenda del vampiro y de la pesadilla del ser viviente hecho con fragmentos de cadáveres. Sentí el extraño agrado de ver cómo se unían en una sola historia, que yo presentía vagamente, las vidas de Byron y Shelley con la catástrofe de una erupción volcánica en los mares del sur, con un tsunami en las costas de Bali, con esa nube de azufre y ceniza y cristales volcánicos que ennegreció el cielo de la península de Indochina y que los monzones se fueron llevando hacia el norte, desatando el cólera en la India y ahogando muchedumbres en las inundaciones del Yangtsé y del río Amarillo. Aquella historia unía cosas extremas, abarcaba medio mundo, conjugaba fenómenos geológicos y meteorológicos con hechos históricos, personajes literarios y criaturas fantásticas. Algo nos hace pensar que este maravilloso libro, como la criatura Frankenstein, no tuvo infancia, pero también, como el señor vampiro, está fuera del tiempo ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Excerpt : "It surprised me that the eruption of an Indonesian volcano in 1815 would be one of the contributing causes of the birth in the West of the modern vampire legend, and of the nightmarish living being made of fragments of cadavers. I felt a strange pleasure at seeing how they joined in just one story, which I vaguely sensed: the lives of Byron and Shelley with the catastrophe of a volcanic eruption in the South Seas, with a tsunami on the coast of Bali, with that cloud of sulfur and ash and volcanic crystals that blackened the sky over the Indochinese Peninsula and which the monsoons carried up to the north, unleashing cholera in India and drowning crowds of people in the floods of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. That story united extreme things, encompassed half the world, combined geological and meteorological phenomena with historical facts, literary characters, and fantastical creatures."

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William Ospina (Padua, Tolima, 1954) es autor de numerosos libros de poesía, entre ellos Hilo de Arena (1986), La luna del dragón (1992), El país del viento (Premio Nacional de Poesía del Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, 1992), y de ensayo, entre ellos Los nuevos centros de la esfera (Premio de Ensayo Ezequiel Martínez Estrada de Casa de las Américas, La Habana, 2003), Es tarde para el hombre (1992), ¿Dónde está la franja amarilla? (1996), Las auroras de sangre (1999), La decadencia de los dragones (2002), América mestiza (2004), La escuela de la noche (2008). Su primera novela, Ursúa (2005), dio comienzo a una trilogía sobre la Conquista, continuada por El País de la Canela (2008) y rematada por La serpiente sin ojos.

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  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 607313049X
  • ISBN 13 9786073130493
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