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Falsificaciones

Falsificaciones is an Argentine novel by Marco Denevi. It was first published in 1966. The book contains 85 satirical short stories, each modeled after a different well-known literary work. "Génesis" is modeled after the first book of the Holy Bible, and describes a re-creation of the world after a nuclear apocalypse. "El dios de las moscas" is also very similar to Genesis of the Holy Bible. Falsificaciones also includes satirical rewrites of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Miguel Cervantes' Don Quijote.


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“Magnets humiliate iron. It's a theory about love.”

El imán humilla al hierro. Es una teoría sobre el amor.
Falsificaciones (1977)

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“My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.”

Mi culpa marcha tan lenta que siempre la alcanzan el perdón y el olvido.
Falsificaciones (1977)

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“The moral of all fables: Man is an animal.”

Moraleja de todas las fábulas: el hombre es un animal.
Falsificaciones (1977)

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“A dictator is often a revolutionary who has made a name for himself. A revolutionary is often a bourgeois who hasn't.”

A menudo un dictador es un revolucionario que hizo carrera. A menudo un revolucionario es un burgués que no la hizo.
Falsificaciones (1977)

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