Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: This book, with the selected stories, or others like them, should have been published in 1990 or a year earlier. Once, during a visit to Ciénaga, Germán Vargas proposed the volume, which would include stories by Ramón Bacca, Guillermo Henríquez and ClINSERT INTOn Ramírez, whose presentation note he claimed to have had written. When Germán died in 1991, the idea took shape and the book was put together to pay tribute to him for his invaluable services to the literature of this country, but especially for his closeness to us. Five years ago, in 2015 or 2016, we agreed with Ramón Bacca and Guillermo Henríquez to reprint the book, but other commitments or the lack of final interest prevented the realization of the new project. The sudden and sudden death of Ramón Bacca in January of this year reactivated the idea of reprinting the book. We were in that process, revising the texts, transcribing them, when Guillermo Henríquez died on January 30, also without warning and without giving us a chance to prepare ourselves. The news of his death coincided with the entry INSERT INTO the e-mail of the introductory note that the Colombian critic and poet Teobaldo Noriega wrote for the reprint: an unusual news, according to his words, which forced him to rewrite it in the following two hours in the library of his residence in London, Canada. This volume has counted, as it did 30 years ago, with the disinterested and distant revision of the poet Javier Moscarella, author of the note written in 1991 about Germán Vargas, which is preserved, as well as the brief introduction written by Guillermo. On this occasion, in addition to transcribing and revising the texts, I have mobilized the will of the Editorial of the Universidad del Magdalena, with Jorge Elías Caro at the helm, so that this book will be both a testimony of friendship and a sign of commitment to the dissemination of the literary exercise in this part of the country. Other texts that exalt the literary memory of Ramón and Guillermo will follow, as expressed by the university's top executives.