La Piedra Blanda / The Soft Stone
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RODRIGO CORT�S Y TOM�S HIJO TALLAN CON LA PALABRA Y LA GUBIA UNA F�BULA GR�FICA �NICA
«Los libros de Rodrigo Cort�s contienen un espect�culo maravilloso y deslumbrante de imaginaci�n y fantas�a. Es uno de nuestros escritores m�s originales, distintos, un elegido llamado a perdurar . --Manuel Vilas «Tom�s Hijo es, en mi opini�n, uno de los grandes grabadores modernos . --Guillermo del Toro Pedro de Poco naci� boca abajo y a la segunda. Ha sido monje, ladr�n, santo, mendigo, pastor, nada. Su vida transcurre con la cadencia de las cosas peque�as y las cosas grandes, que son las mismas cosas, inexplicables e ignoradas. En el mundo de Pedro de Poco hay jilgueros, grajos y buitres, sirenas y ni�os que tocan la vihuela, sobre un suelo lleno de milagros que no importan, maravilloso e indiferente. Pedro de Poco no es indiferente, es solamente una piedra que late. Una piedra blanda. La piedra blanda es el fruto del trabajo conjunto entre el escritor y cineasta Rodrigo Cort�s y el grabador Tom�s Hijo; una novela enteramente tallada, hija de la tradici�n picaresca, que es tambi�n un homenaje al origen de todos los libros, al misterio y la fascinaci�n de que est�n hechos los �rboles del bosque. «Rodrigo me mostr� el primer borrador de su idea en un bar de Madrid. Lo le� mientras se zampaba una tostada enorme. El texto estaba lleno de misterios contados con franqueza y de im�genes deslumbrantes invocadas como cosas corrientes. Hay una emoci�n inconfundible (pero dif�cil de describir) que aparece cuando te encuentras con algo as� una impaciencia, una sensaci�n casi f�sica de necesidad, de ganas de agarrar un l�piz y de escuchar c�mo la punta rasca el papel mientras las ideas toman forma . --Tom�s Hijo sobre Rodrigo Cort�s «Perderse en un grabado de Tom�s es abandonarse al placer de observar, buscar las siete diferencias sin comparar nada con nada. Qu� agradecido se siente el escribidor entonces, cuando las palabras se disuelven en su tinta y de ellas s�lo queda la estela. Porque La piedra blanda, huelga decirlo, no es texto ilustrado, es un motete a dos voces, una fuga a cuatro manos; nada es antes ni es despu�s, todo es un cantar de ida y vuelta . -- Rodrigo Cort�s sobre Tom�s Hijo ENGLISH DESCRIPTION RODRIGO CORT�S AND TOM�S HIJO CARVED WITH WORDS AND GAUGE A UNIQUE GRAPHIC FABLE. "Rodrigo Cort�s' books hold a marvelous and dazzling spectacle of imagination and fantasy. He is one of our most original, distinct writers; a chosen one called to endure." --Manuel Vilas Pedro de Poco was born upside down, and on the second attempt. He has been a monk, thief, saint, beggar, pastor, nothing. His life moves with the cadency of small things and big things, which are the same things, inexplicable and ignored. In Pedro de Poco's world, there are goldfinches, rooks, and vultures, sirens and boys who play the vihuela, over a ground filled with miracles that don't matter, wonderful and different. Pedro de Poco isn't indifferent, he is just a beating stone. A soft stone. The Soft Stone is the fruit of the joint labor between writer and filmmaker Rodrigo Cort�s and engraver Tom�s Hijo; a novel entirely carved, daughter of the picaresque tradition, that is also homage to the origins of all books, to the mystery and fascination the trees in the forests are made of.Rodrigo Cortés quiso ser pintor, escritor y músico; hoy lo hace todo a la vez al dedicarse al cine. Ha trabajado con actores de la talla de Robert de Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Ryan Reynolds o Uma Thurman. Como escritor, publica a finales de 2013 A las 3 son las 2, colección de antiaforismos, delirios y bombas de mano, y, un año más tarde, Sí importa el modo en que un hombre se hunde, su primera novela. En 2016 aparece su nuevo libro de breverías, Dormir es de patos, y en 2021 publica Los años extraordinarios, su segunda novela. Firma para el diario ABC la sección Verbolario, diccionario satírico que inspira su quinto libro, de igual título, y escribe de forma habitual en su tercera página. En 2024 publica Cuentos telúricos, su primera antología de cuentos y su sexto libro. Habla de cine, literatura y música en Aquí hay dragones y Todopoderosos, los dos podcasts más escuchados del momento.
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