Songs for the FlamesJuan Gabriel Vásquez Translated by Anne McLean New York: Riverhead Books, 2021Marguerite FeitlowitzRoutledgeReview: Literature and Arts of the Americas
earning it a place among the most romantic of Juan Gabriel's compositions. The title translates in English to "Hug Me Very Tight," and the lyrics speak of the pain of missing his love when she's away.
His songs have been recorded in Japanese, Turkish, Bulgarian, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Melayu, Hawaiian and English. One of the most recognized and acclaimed Mexican singers in the history of Spanish language music, Jua...
A man who would rather read a newspaper while in the car instead of enjoying the beauty of the countryside is a dead man, as is a man who would rather sleep in an airplane instead of looking out the window at the earth below to the clouds around him – and one who is afraid to cr...
“A reinventor of Latin American literature in the 21st century.”―Jonathan Franzen “Juan Gabriel Vásquez, it could be argued, has succeeded García Márquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia, a country that can boast of many eminent authors.”―New York Review of Books ...
As an actor for television he worked on the popular soap opera "Pobre Juventad, " he was also the star of "Tormento," "Sombras del Pasado," "Provocame" and "Gabriel". As an actor in films he was featured in the Jacobo Morales film Linda Sara, opposite ex-Miss Universe Dayanara ...
The greatest of Lope’s immediate successors, Tirso de Molina (pseudonym of Fray Gabriel Téllez), first dramatized the Don Juan legend in his Burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Trickster of Sevilla”). La prudencia en la mujer (1634; “Prudence in Woman”) figured among Spain’s greatest hi...
The greatest of Lope’s immediate successors, Tirso de Molina (pseudonym of Fray Gabriel Téllez), first dramatized the Don Juan legend in his Burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Trickster of Sevilla”). La prudencia en la mujer (1634; “Prudence in Woman”) figured among Spain’s greatest hi...
The greatest of Lope’s immediate successors, Tirso de Molina (pseudonym of Fray Gabriel Téllez), first dramatized the Don Juan legend in his Burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Trickster of Sevilla”). La prudencia en la mujer (1634; “Prudence in Woman”) figured among Spain’s greatest hi...
The greatest of Lope’s immediate successors, Tirso de Molina (pseudonym of Fray Gabriel Téllez), first dramatized the Don Juan legend in his Burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Trickster of Sevilla”). La prudencia en la mujer (1634; “Prudence in Woman”) figured among Spain’s greatest hi...