- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 1942369530
- Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.55 x 9 inches; 11.99 Ounces
- Publication date : April 23, 2021
- Publisher : Casasola Editores
- Country of Origin : USA
- ISBN-13 : 978-1942369530
- Release date : April 23, 2021
Translated by María Roof
Conversing with writer and journalist Karly Gaitán Morales in order to sketch out a prologue for the first Spanish edition of this book to be published in Mexico in 2012 for the 70th anniversary of the birth of Sergio Ramírez Mercado, we easily came to the conclusion that, like in Darío’s story, we all have a blue bird in our craniums. The blue bird has flown quite often since that day and this one in 2020, when I am updating the text for the second Spanish edition, with additions that constitute a testimony to the literary production of one of the most prolific writers in the Spanish language, and a Nobel Prize winner in the making, based on the quality and diversity of his—our—literature.
Karly, myself, Sergio’s readers have all been pursued across time by that incommensurable bird that is no longer confined in a cage, but rather enjoys total freedom in a multiplicity of genres, from police fiction to stories for the children that we are, were, and continue to be in his three books: El perro invisible (The Invisible Dog, 2006), La jirafa embarazada (The Pregnant Giraffe, 2013), and Los pájaros que se escaparon del cuadro (Birds that Escaped from the Picture, 2019). I had the good fortune to present Los pájaros at the Centroamérica Cuenta Festival, which cannot be held this year in Nicaragua for political reasons, and was celebrated in Costa Rica in mid-May 2019. I was there, like a blue bird escaped from the picture.
MR
LITERATURA CENTROAMERICANA 