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6La nueva novela de Manuel Vicent: Una historia de noches brillantes de cine y glamour a las que siguen los d as grises de la dictadura franquista.
«Persegu a dos sombras: la de Ava Gardner y la del asesino Jos Mar a Jarabo. La b squeda de la belleza inasequible abrazada a la maldad. David, un joven que ha pasado los primeros a os de su vida respirando el aire del Mediterr neo, abandona su ciudad para establecerse en Madrid y cumplir un sue o: conocer a Ava Gardner y convertirse en director de cine. A su llegada se presenta en la Escuela de Cinematograf a decidido a pasar las pruebas de acceso. Son los primeros a os sesenta y en Espa a todo un mundo relacionado con el arte, el cine y la literatura disfruta noches llenas de glamour, divertidas y extraordinariamente libres. Noches de cine a las que siguen d as en que la realidad del pa s se ahoga cubierta por la p tina oscura y represiva de la dictadura franquista. Ficci n y realidad se entrecruzan en esta novela ambientada en la reciente historia de Espa a. Con su maestr a habitual, Manuel Vicent retrata en Ava en la noche la inestable frontera entre un tiempo oscuro y en declive y otro que, con los primeros vientos de cambio, ya empieza a asomar en el horizonte. ENGLISH DESCRIPCION Manuel Vicent's new novel: A story of the brilliant nights of cinema and glamor followed by the gray days of the Franco dictatorship. I was chasing two shadows: Ava Gardner's and the murderer Jos Mar a Jarabo's. The search for unaffordable beauty embraced by evil. David, a young man who has spent the first part of his life breathing the Mediterranean air, leaves his city to settle in Madrid and fulfill a dream: to meet Ava Gardner and become a film director. Upon arrival, he went to the School of Cinematography determined to pass the entrance exams. It's the early sixties in Spain a whole world related to art, cinema, and literature enjoys glamorous, fun, and extraordinarily free nights. Movie nights followed by days where the reality of the country is drowning covered by the dark and repressive veneer of the Franco dictatorship. Fiction and reality intersect in this novel set in the recent history of Spain. With his usual mastery, Manuel Vicent paints in Ava at Night the volatile border between a dark and declining time and another that, with the first winds of change, is already looming on the horizon.
«Persegu a dos sombras: la de Ava Gardner y la del asesino Jos Mar a Jarabo. La b squeda de la belleza inasequible abrazada a la maldad. David, un joven que ha pasado los primeros a os de su vida respirando el aire del Mediterr neo, abandona su ciudad para establecerse en Madrid y cumplir un sue o: conocer a Ava Gardner y convertirse en director de cine. A su llegada se presenta en la Escuela de Cinematograf a decidido a pasar las pruebas de acceso. Son los primeros a os sesenta y en Espa a todo un mundo relacionado con el arte, el cine y la literatura disfruta noches llenas de glamour, divertidas y extraordinariamente libres. Noches de cine a las que siguen d as en que la realidad del pa s se ahoga cubierta por la p tina oscura y represiva de la dictadura franquista. Ficci n y realidad se entrecruzan en esta novela ambientada en la reciente historia de Espa a. Con su maestr a habitual, Manuel Vicent retrata en Ava en la noche la inestable frontera entre un tiempo oscuro y en declive y otro que, con los primeros vientos de cambio, ya empieza a asomar en el horizonte. ENGLISH DESCRIPCION Manuel Vicent's new novel: A story of the brilliant nights of cinema and glamor followed by the gray days of the Franco dictatorship. I was chasing two shadows: Ava Gardner's and the murderer Jos Mar a Jarabo's. The search for unaffordable beauty embraced by evil. David, a young man who has spent the first part of his life breathing the Mediterranean air, leaves his city to settle in Madrid and fulfill a dream: to meet Ava Gardner and become a film director. Upon arrival, he went to the School of Cinematography determined to pass the entrance exams. It's the early sixties in Spain a whole world related to art, cinema, and literature enjoys glamorous, fun, and extraordinarily free nights. Movie nights followed by days where the reality of the country is drowning covered by the dark and repressive veneer of the Franco dictatorship. Fiction and reality intersect in this novel set in the recent history of Spain. With his usual mastery, Manuel Vicent paints in Ava at Night the volatile border between a dark and declining time and another that, with the first winds of change, is already looming on the horizon.
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