The narrator of the tango singer is the nyu graduate student bruno cadogan. The tango and its history have long exerted a potent grip over the argentinian imagination. He is one of the great portayers of the argentine experience in the last half of the 20th century. Jan 15, 2007 the tango singer tomas eloy martinez, anne mclean on. Jan 15, 2007 tomas eloy martinez recently died but he has left behind some very special novels. Bruno cadogan has flown from new york to buenos aires in search of the elusive and legendary julio martel. Thankfully the spanish in this book was much simpler than that of ficciones.
In 2001 he gets a fulbright scholarship to travel to buenos aires to do research for his dissertation on jorge luis borges essays on the origins of the tango enough, along with the grant he gets from the university, to live there for six months, if not longer. Encuentros tomas eloy martinez programa completo youtube. Tomas eloy martinez, argentine novelist, journalist, and educator. Jan 28, 2006 the tango singer by tomas eloy martinez translated by anne mclean 256pp, bloomsbury. His pursuit of martel is complicated by the fact that the. It develops the idea of a coexistence of two different perspectives on the same city, buenos aires, corresponding to the main two characters of the story.
Tomas eloy martinez argentine novelist, journalist, and. The tango singer is a novel by tomas eloy martinez, which was translated to english by anne. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. My interest in argentinian literature and culture led me to this book, shortly after finishing ficciones by jorge luis borges. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Eloy martinez s novel adopts another crucial tenet of. Tomas eloy martinez tucuman, 1934 buenos aires, 2010 narrador, cronista y critico argentino.
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