Cuentos Completos. Ignacio Aldecoa / Complete Works. Ignacio Aldecoa

Los cuentos de Ignacio Aldecoa reunidos en un solo volumen. «Ignacio era un narrador de raza. Para l, contar historias era una manera de vivir. Contarlas del modo m s eficaz y con el lenguaje m s bello y expresivo, la meta a la que le conduc an su talento, su esfuerzo y su voluntad apasionada de perfecci n. Ignacio admiraba profundamente a Stevenson. Y sol a contar c mo los ind genas de la isla de Samoa hab an grabado un hermoso epitafio en la tumba del escritor: -Aqu yace Tusitala, el narrador de historias.. Luego, Ignacio se quedaba pensativo un instante y a ad a: -As es como me gustar a que me recordaran: Ignacio Aldecoa, el narrador de historias-. Y sonre a. Porque Ignacio ten a una forma risue a de decir las cosas en las que cre a seriamente. Detestaba la solemnidad, rechazaba la pedanter a y le gustaba pasar levemente sobre los asuntos graves: la brevedad de la existencia, la inaceptable injusticia de nacer para morir, la muerte misma. .-Josefina R. AldecoaENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Ignacio Aldecoa's complete short stories compiled together in one volume.

"Ignacio was an innate narrator. For him, telling stories was a way of life; he loved to tell them with the most beautiful and meaningful language. That was his goal, that was what his effort and his passionate will for perfection aimed for.

Ignacio deeply admired Stevenson. He used to remember how the natives of the island of Samoa had inscribed a beautiful epitaph on the writer's grave: "Here lies Tusitala, the storyteller". Then, Ignacio would think for a moment and add: "This is how I would like to be remembered: Ignacio Aldecoa, the storyteller".

He would smile, because Ignacio had a funny way of saying the things he seriously believed in. He loathed somberness, rejected smugness, and liked to take on serious matters in a light-hearted way, things like: the brevity of our existence, the unacceptable injustice of being born only to die, and death itself." - Josefina R. Aldecoa