Un joven de dieciocho ąos llega a la Ciudad de M̌xico con la secreta intenci̤n de convertirse en poeta. Es el final de la ďcada de 1950. Pronto comienza a involucrarse en la intensa vida cultural de la capital. talleres y tertulias, complicidades sinceras y envidias a͠n m̀s profundas, caf̌s y torneos de ajedrez, intrigas amorosas, vanidades y -a pesar o sobre todo- una verdadera pasi̤n por la creaci̤n literaria. El joven tendr̀ que convertirse, efectivamente, en poeta y en uno de los protagonistas de la literatura mexicana del siglo. "An eighteen-year-old young man arrives in Mexico City with the secret intention of becoming a poet. It is the end of the 1950s. Soon, he begins to get involved in the intense cultural life of the capital. Enter a world of workshops and gatherings, sincere complicities and even deeper envies, cafes and chess tournaments, love intrigues, vanities and - despite or above all - a true passion for literary creation. The young man will have to become, indeed, a poet and one of the protagonists of twentieth-century Mexican literature.
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