Questions tagged [manuel-vazquez-montalban]
Questions about the works of the Spanish author and journalist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939 - 2003) or his life as a writer.
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What is the origin of the name Biscuter for Carvalho's assistant?
The question "What are the proper names of Charo, Biscuter, and Bromide in the Carvalho series?" by Clara Díaz Sánchez has made me curious to know why Vázquez Montalbán chose these three ...
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Has Vázquez Montalbán's poetry ever been translated?
Josep Maria Castellet wrote a highly interesting introduction to the book Memoria y deseo. Poesía 1963-1983, a poetry collection by Vázquez Montalbán,
published in 1986, which can be read on the ...
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Origin of the idea that the Chaldeans believed the world was ringed by mountains, in Montalbán's Carvalho series
Pepe Carvalho, the central character of the series of detective novels written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, has a next-door neighbour named Enric Fuster. Fuster is a fellow gastronome, a confidant, ...
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Are there autobiographical aspects in the poem "Morirá esta historia en la Historia" from the book "Praga" by Vázquez Montalbán?
Josep Maria Castellet said of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán that
si algún día alguien emprende el estudio, en su conjunto, de su extensa producción literaria tendría que empezar por la poesía, donde, a mi ...
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Author and title of poem in Montalbán's "South Seas"
Southern Seas (originally "Los mares del Sur"), available for loan at the Internet Archive, is the fourth installment of the Pepe Carvalho detective series. Carvalho is employed to find a ...
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What are the proper names of Charo, Biscuter, and Bromide in the Carvalho series?
The detective Pepe Carvalho is the central character in a series of 25 crime novels by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In the stories he is assisted, and sometime hindered, by a cast of recurring characters:...
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Who is "Anselm" in Montalbán's "An Olympic Death"?
El laberinto griego (��An Olympic Death”) by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (published 1991) is set in Barcelona, while the city is preparing itself to host the Olympics the following year. The detective, ...
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