La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It was concluded that, under the present circumstances of the epidemiological practice within the Cuban health system, it seems timely to review this exchange that elucidates and guides us to develop any strategy for change that responds to the necessary transformations that have been suggested. The paper has an ad hoc structure, because the two Professor Granda's messages were transcribed showing their valuable and relevant views on the subject, followed by comments from the author and other criteria. The text, which pays tribute to his memory, is a modest contribution to current proposal for epidemiological work in health services in Cuba. As the issue is still valid, this article described an interesting exchange of ideas with the late and renowned Ecuadorian. It has been just over a decade since the publication of an article that began with the questioning about a possible Cuban School of Epidemiology this issue was repetitive at the higher health service levels and in some other academic-teaching spaces in that period.

Text and gothic text, then there would seem to be an irresolvable tension at the heart of its representations of, and attitudes to, the historical past. The task in the gothic text is to attempt to exorcise the past which is omnipresent, rather than to reclaim a buried past through the recuperative gestures of memory. On the continuing presence of that past, on its continuing power and threat. If the memory text focuses upon the need to recover a forgotten or silenced past, the gothic text rather focuses While sharing this concern, however, the gothic and the memory text approach that past in quite distinct ways. Point at which they converge: their concern with the historical past. Although these two modes may seem to have little in common, there is one important Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros cuya intriga se mantiene hasta la última página.This article looks at La sombra del viento as a highly self-conscious gothic text in light of the recent critical debate about the novel's contribution to the growing tradition of the 'memory text'. La Sombra del Viento es un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo xx, desde los últimos esplendores del Modernismo hasta las tinieblas de la posguerra.Īunando las técnicas del relato de intriga y suspense, la novela histórica y la comedia de costumbres, La Sombra del Viento es sobre todo una trágica historia de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambia el rumbo de su vida y le arrastra a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad.

Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.

La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón