“Every time I return to Buenos Aires I hang my hat in La Biela”, he published Arturo Perez-Reverte on Twitter accompanied by a photo of the renowned notable bar. In the image you can see the white hat of the writer resting on the table next to two statues, corresponding to Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.
The Buenos Aires space located in Presidente Quintana at 600, is recognized by the illustrious characters who have attended throughout the decades, acquiring worldwide fame. Its tables have been visited by lots of touristspoliticians, businessmen, athletes and many celebrities.
Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ernesto Sábato, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Joan Manuel Serrat, Joaquín Sabina, Facundo Cabral, Robert Duvall and Francis Ford Coppola, They were some of the personalities who drank a coffee or had lunch there.
An opportunity that the Spanish author of best sellers like “Queen of the South” and “Comanche Territory”, he does not stop visiting when he is in the country. Writer, journalist and member of the Royal Academy, he is only part of the curriculum of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, who will be presenting his novel “Revolution” at the 47th edition of the Buenos Aires Book Fair.
According to the novelist, “Revolución” arose from a legendary family story, from letters his great-grandfather received from a Spanish friend who lived in Mexico during the revolution, and from the desire that the novel “be heard in Mexican.” In his extensive career, the writer covered the revolutions of El Salvador, Romania and Nicaragua; and armed conflicts such as those in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. A dramatic context that he knows perfectly well and carries out in his latest production.
In this regard, his experience as a war correspondent for twenty-one years was one of the most recognized profiles of the creator of “Captain Alatriste.” With more than twenty million readers around the world, many of his novels have been made into movies and television. Since the adaptation of “Club Dumas”, Realized by Roman Polanski in the film “The ninth door”, even the spanish film “Comanche Territory” of Gerardo Herrero, they went across the screen.
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