La noche que llegué al Café Gijón, de Francisco Umbral, es un libro autobiográfico y memorialístico en el que el autor narra su llegada al Madrid literario de los años 50 y 60, tomando como eje el mítico Café Gijón. A través de recuerdos, anécdotas y retratos de escritores, periodistas, bohemios y personajes de la época, Umbral construye una crónica muy personal del ambiente cultural madrileño y de su propio aprendizaje como escritor.
The writer Jack Torrance is offered a job as a caretaker of the Overlook hotel during the winter with his family. This work seems to be a perfect opportunity to prove that it is fully cured of its alcoholism. The hotel is located on top of the Colorado mountains and the nearest village is Sidewinder, approximately 65 km from the site. The roads are unpassable in the winter, so the place is practically isolated from the world.
The plot develops from the fact that a strange individual brutally raped and killed Nina, a young woman married to Steve and Neil's mother, a child who is witness to the crime.
The loving relationship of the young writer Varguitas with a woman of his family older than him, Aunt Julia, and the unbridled presence of the journalist Pedro Camacho on the same radio station where Varguitas works are the two stories in which the argument of Aunt Julia and the writer is reversed.
Jorge Ibargüengoitia's masterpiece is the extraordinary recreation of a real case that shocked Mexico in the 1960s, when several bodies of prostitutes appeared in different properties of the two madame, owners of three brothels. The dead are built from various testimonies, voices that gather to shape a unique literary universe.
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