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whole world turns on currency speculation. Publishers play the stock market and only bet for a title when you know that the compass of sales will tilt in their favor. Most publications are predictable or gimmicky; product of a manufacturing coldly calculated, a literature that does not override the content, but how well you have planned your marketing.

The book Birds of Latin America is a powerful symbol that represents the exception to the rule. Described without arrogance, but well with remarkable modesty, these pages drawn by Augusto Monterroso, are destined to reach the highest peak, ie at the hands of readers who want to venture into his flight log.

From the first lines of the preface, the author notes that the texts collected in the book are portraits, even sketches or notes, but only certain tracks traits Some birds have left on earth, sand or in the air, and that he has collected and has sought to preserve.

foray into autobiographical content is a clever medley of stories that testify to the friendships and affinities of the author with the likes of Julio Cortázar, Ernesto Cardenal, Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Juan Rulfo , among many other writers of our language.

Naturally, in the memories that privileges, there is so much of it as the birds alluded to. True to this idea, catch with multicolored design unique style of its plumage and without diversion in the air path none, does make snapshots as part of his warm encounters.

The section dedicated to Borges begins with the confession that shocked to discover him. Account, later, how it changed their initial opinion about it until you get to feel a great admiration: "We must return to Borges us, through his travels around the English and German, faith in the possibilities of English unavoidable" .

citing experiences bring us through anecdotal speech, protagonists of Latin American literature, but above all the affections and sympathies of the narrator in Guatemala. These birds shake their wings and get a miraculous rise to form a happy polyphony, break with the usual publishing schemes.

the end, the author is known ornithologist and leads us along on his explorations, discoveries and hobbies. Other times, it gives us the joy of having felt the same experiences and we will give up on weapons to approach with joy to the challenges of their work.

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there a man of our time; serene after his troubles, without being careful never conservative. A writer of prodigious legacy whose lines are strung together with a humorous and where each field experience becomes memorable.