Almost all of us who do this Editorial Viajes al Pasado project have been marked by Javier Reverte in one way or another.. Ricardo Coarasa remember that he once sent you an email, to try, in which he asked him to write the prologue for a book about the terrorist attacks. 11 M, that four good journalists wrote, and ended with the prologue and with the writer frequently sitting at the table.
Maria Ferreira He remembers that he wrote to him about his chores when he had just arrived in Kenya., young and innocent, para que le diera consejos para que el mundo no se la comiera. Una vez le pidió consejo para que los monos dejaran de zamparse los mangos de su jardín de Makuyu, the village where he lived. And Javier told him to inject them with cheap liquor, that would make them drunk by eating them and would put them "offside". And Mary did it. He got the monkeys drunk, and what it achieved was that they became addicted to catching each other and became hyperaggressive protecting their mangifera.. “I think I hesitated., But then I didn't understand him.", she remembers laughing.
Javier Brandoli remember an email. It is from 2 October 2020. (I remove the names and email addresses that appear out of respect for your privacy.). It reads:
Querido Javier:
They are going to read the novel to you at Random House. Send it to him on my behalf -and adds that at the direction of: virg…..@penguinrandomhouse.com What I don't know is how long it will take, but I think it will be soon. And I can't influence the decision at all.. Luck and hugs. JavierR.
He died 20 October, 18 days after that message. I had talked to him about my novel at a lunch and dinner that we shared in Rome the previous February.. The, I guess putting everything in order before leaving, He had time to remember my manuscript. The novel was not particularly worth it; your friendship yes.
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He, I guess putting everything in order before leaving, He had time to remember my manuscript. The novel was not particularly worth it; your friendship yes.
Literature and traveling brought us together as four different people.. The legacy of Javier Reverte, very present and involved in this project, It is everything we want to honor and propose. narrate the world, with passion, with knowledge.
The love of reading is a vice. A fourth leg of the publishing house knows it well. Ignacio Docampo read from a young age with bulimia. still does, pero ahora debe administrar sus tiempos con lo de calentar los biberones de Martín y diseñar los libros que vendemos. Has a hand for design, and good taste, and on top of that he is a very good person.
And on the bench we are left Daniel Landa. Nothing that bears the name VAP is foreign to him, because VAP is part of it. Here he stood in profile, because he is with his documentaries and cameras, with our trips and courses, and with Iván and Paula, who have a trapeze artist father inventing circuses. But Dani's profile is more presence than the front of many.
The editorial Viajes al Pasado is all that you read behind. They do not need more of our biographies because we should not speak but our works. We have already published some books in the past, but from the naivety of believing that our mission was to have a good story that would hang on some shelf. And the truth, there are many good stories. And told well, quite a few, although less. But most die before being born.. So many books are published, and so fast, that the works greet from the exit door.
So many books are published, and so fast, that the works greet from the exit door
Travel to the Past, VAP, is a publisher specializing in non-fiction travel narratives., international politics, culture, society and all those realities that make up today's hectic world. We believe that it is essential in these times of social trenches to return to the path of the old profession of chroniclers. and offer very careful books that entertain, teach and offer discussions to those who read them.
It is not that our texts have no ideology, but we are willing to contradict ourselves with titles that may have different reflections, to publish one and the other, to print ideas that are not always ours. We don't come to tell ourselves, we come to tell the others. with a limit: There is no place in this project for anyone who insults or attacks. And we want readers to believe that., that they get angry with what they sometimes read, who disagree with some of the proposals that make up this project. This respect for plurality is our pact with readers.
And there you will have shortly, on your shelves, a stumble map; a mother who flies; a plate of pasta to boil…
We leave…
