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La venganza será terrible: 30 años
La Venganza será Terrible cumplió treinta años.
Este libro recorre esa historia mediante anécdotas y reflexiones en la voz de su protagonista principal y en las voces de aquellos que orbitaron en el universo humorístico, filosófico y musical de su creador.
Testimonios de oyentes célebres, confesiones de los que participaron, datos y sucesos insólitos, transcripciones de los mejores momentos de la historia del programa. Todo este material se completa con un prólogo de Gabriel Rolón y un archivo fotográfico inédito que llega hasta hoy, con el programa ya convertido en un espectáculo ambulante y más vigente que nunca.
“Hacer radio salvó mi vida”, asegura Alejandro Dolina en estas páginas. A la luz de los hechos, podría afirmarse que también salvó las vidas de algunos otros.
Este libro recorre esa historia mediante anécdotas y reflexiones en la voz de su protagonista principal y en las voces de aquellos que orbitaron en el universo humorístico, filosófico y musical de su creador.
Testimonios de oyentes célebres, confesiones de los que participaron, datos y sucesos insólitos, transcripciones de los mejores momentos de la historia del programa. Todo este material se completa con un prólogo de Gabriel Rolón y un archivo fotográfico inédito que llega hasta hoy, con el programa ya convertido en un espectáculo ambulante y más vigente que nunca.
“Hacer radio salvó mi vida”, asegura Alejandro Dolina en estas páginas. A la luz de los hechos, podría afirmarse que también salvó las vidas de algunos otros.
496 pages, Paperback
First published May 8, 2017
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About the author
Alejandro Dolina
22 books200 followersAlejandro Ricardo Dolina (born May 20, 1945) is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer.
Dolina was born in Baigorrita, Buenos Aires Province, and spent his childhood years in Caseros, a middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires city, with Yugoslav (in his own words -he never referred to a particular ethnic group in the defunct country) and Italian ancestry (he has also reminded his audiences that Dolina is a word preserved in many Slavic languages, meaning valley). He pursued music and writing since childhood. Although he steadfastly refuses to discuss his private life, he often recalls anecdotes about time spent in his youth in the company of musicians and professional gamblers (he confesses of having worked for a while as a dice man at an illegal casino, until his acquaintance Manuel Evequoz "rescued" him, preventing his going further astray and offering him the first jobs in the advertising business).
In the early 1970s, Dolina made inroads into advertising copywriting and started publishing articles in Satiricón magazine, which was read for laughs but often provided deeper reflections on politics, society, and life in general. His main partner in this adventure was Carlos Trillo, who was also an advertising man and would later become a successful comics writer.
In 1978, with Satiricón closed by the military dictatorship, Dolina started writing in Humor magazine, which treaded much more carefully to avoid closure or an even worse fate. During these years, Dolina (himself a moderate Peronist) wrote essays about honor, love, friendship, and invented a mythology centered on the Gray Angel of Flores neighborhood, fictitious writer Manuel Mandeb (according to himself, inspired by Manuel Evequoz, the man who had helped him in his early youth), using them as a pretext to deal with universal themes. These stories have since been published in the book "Crónicas del Ángel Gris" ("Chronicles of the Gray Angel") in 1987, and later morphed into a musical.
With the return of democracy in 1983, Dolina started hosting a successful late radio show: originally named Demasiado tarde para lágrimas ("Too late for tears"). For several years he enjoyed a growing success; in 1987 he was voted the best humourist in a poll conducted by a primetime TV show, leaving behind some legendary comic actors such as Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel, still active back then. In 1988 he started his own TV show La Barra de Dolina ("Dolina's Gang"); the show was daring enough to include soccer matches featuring some retired stars, and even St. Peter's & St. Paul's bonfires, an old more (safety matters aside, it's held as a bad omen to have real fire in a TV studio). As in his radio show, he'd greet members of the audience in person. In 1990 and 1991 Dolina kept his TV show once a week, while his daily radio show went on a hiatus. Its name was later changed for contractual reasons, in 1992 to El Ombligo del Mundo (a name shared by his resumed radio show and by a Saturday night TV-show); in 1993 he drops the TV show while the radio show gets its current name: La venganza será terrible ("Revenge will be terrible"). In 1991 he was nominated for the "TV or Radio Host" Konex Award for his work in the show.
In spite of changes in the radio or TV station the show format suffered only minor changes since its inception in the mid '80s. To accommodate live audiences (free admittance until the place is full) many live studios were used: the Radio El Mundo (radio) and Canal 11 [1988] and ATC[1990, 1991] (TV) auditoriums; those at the House of Buenos Aires province [1989], House of Entre Ríos province [1989]; the Insurance Workers' Union [1992]. Then, the two-hour show was broadcast live Monday to Friday at midnight originally from the basement of the famous Café Tortoni. Due to security reasons, after República Cromagnon nightclub fire, it was transferred in 2005 to the Hotel Bauen, a recuperated business.
Dolina was born in Baigorrita, Buenos Aires Province, and spent his childhood years in Caseros, a middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires city, with Yugoslav (in his own words -he never referred to a particular ethnic group in the defunct country) and Italian ancestry (he has also reminded his audiences that Dolina is a word preserved in many Slavic languages, meaning valley). He pursued music and writing since childhood. Although he steadfastly refuses to discuss his private life, he often recalls anecdotes about time spent in his youth in the company of musicians and professional gamblers (he confesses of having worked for a while as a dice man at an illegal casino, until his acquaintance Manuel Evequoz "rescued" him, preventing his going further astray and offering him the first jobs in the advertising business).
In the early 1970s, Dolina made inroads into advertising copywriting and started publishing articles in Satiricón magazine, which was read for laughs but often provided deeper reflections on politics, society, and life in general. His main partner in this adventure was Carlos Trillo, who was also an advertising man and would later become a successful comics writer.
In 1978, with Satiricón closed by the military dictatorship, Dolina started writing in Humor magazine, which treaded much more carefully to avoid closure or an even worse fate. During these years, Dolina (himself a moderate Peronist) wrote essays about honor, love, friendship, and invented a mythology centered on the Gray Angel of Flores neighborhood, fictitious writer Manuel Mandeb (according to himself, inspired by Manuel Evequoz, the man who had helped him in his early youth), using them as a pretext to deal with universal themes. These stories have since been published in the book "Crónicas del Ángel Gris" ("Chronicles of the Gray Angel") in 1987, and later morphed into a musical.
With the return of democracy in 1983, Dolina started hosting a successful late radio show: originally named Demasiado tarde para lágrimas ("Too late for tears"). For several years he enjoyed a growing success; in 1987 he was voted the best humourist in a poll conducted by a primetime TV show, leaving behind some legendary comic actors such as Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel, still active back then. In 1988 he started his own TV show La Barra de Dolina ("Dolina's Gang"); the show was daring enough to include soccer matches featuring some retired stars, and even St. Peter's & St. Paul's bonfires, an old more (safety matters aside, it's held as a bad omen to have real fire in a TV studio). As in his radio show, he'd greet members of the audience in person. In 1990 and 1991 Dolina kept his TV show once a week, while his daily radio show went on a hiatus. Its name was later changed for contractual reasons, in 1992 to El Ombligo del Mundo (a name shared by his resumed radio show and by a Saturday night TV-show); in 1993 he drops the TV show while the radio show gets its current name: La venganza será terrible ("Revenge will be terrible"). In 1991 he was nominated for the "TV or Radio Host" Konex Award for his work in the show.
In spite of changes in the radio or TV station the show format suffered only minor changes since its inception in the mid '80s. To accommodate live audiences (free admittance until the place is full) many live studios were used: the Radio El Mundo (radio) and Canal 11 [1988] and ATC[1990, 1991] (TV) auditoriums; those at the House of Buenos Aires province [1989], House of Entre Ríos province [1989]; the Insurance Workers' Union [1992]. Then, the two-hour show was broadcast live Monday to Friday at midnight originally from the basement of the famous Café Tortoni. Due to security reasons, after República Cromagnon nightclub fire, it was transferred in 2005 to the Hotel Bauen, a recuperated business.
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July 10, 2020
Excelentes fotos, diseño cuidado y, lógicamente, una historia interesante. El texto —lo más importante, por si hiciera falta aclararlo—, pobre y desastrado, y hasta con errores de ortografía. Se nota mucho, además, que la idea fue estirar el libro con la transcripción de radiocines, segmentos de humor, canciones (muchas de ellas ya publicadas, incluso con los mismos errores, páginas atrás en los radiocines), reflexiones y hasta «mensajes de oyentes famosos». Para colmo, no parece haber habido una selección cuidadosa de ese material: es claro que no es lo mejor, sino acaso lo que estaba más a mano. Este libro habría sido memorable con menos texto mejor trabajado y sin relleno. Solo por las imágenes y por algunos segmentos reveladores (y, claro, por el cariño que le tengo a La venganza será terrible) mi calificación llega a las dos estrellitas.
May 25, 2018
Me considero escucha de la Venganza. Lo ví tres veces en vivo!
Es un programa que me ha acompañado a lo largo de los años y le tengo mucho cariño a Dolina y su equipo.
El libro es una muy linda edición, con páginas satinadas y buenas fotografías.
Se cuenta la historia del programa y se intercalan fragmentos del mismo. Capaz que la inclusión de un cd hubiera estado mejor.
Que haya Venganza por muchos años más.
Es un programa que me ha acompañado a lo largo de los años y le tengo mucho cariño a Dolina y su equipo.
El libro es una muy linda edición, con páginas satinadas y buenas fotografías.
Se cuenta la historia del programa y se intercalan fragmentos del mismo. Capaz que la inclusión de un cd hubiera estado mejor.
Que haya Venganza por muchos años más.
October 17, 2022
Una caja de tesoros para los que amamos al Negro y el programa. La recopilación de testimonios e imágenes es notable y, si bien hay algunos intrascendentes, los de los protagonistas hacen del libro una maravilla.
Eso hace que los errores corrección sean tristísimos. Palabras mal escritas, frases duplicadas, ¡errores de ortografía! A pesar de los 30 años, parece editado a las corridas.
Eso hace que los errores corrección sean tristísimos. Palabras mal escritas, frases duplicadas, ¡errores de ortografía! A pesar de los 30 años, parece editado a las corridas.
July 18, 2019
Alejandro “el Negro” Dolina es alguien único. Más allá de su célebre programa radial “La Venganza será Terrible” es un autor muy completo, que utiliza un lenguaje coloquial y aun así gauchesco, nuclea y fusiona el lunfardo con una prosa formal, dejándote con un profundo sabor a magia. Desde hace mucho, uno de mis autores favoritos. Se cierra un ciclo, para dar paso a la leyenda. Salud, Dolina! Le dejo cinco estrellas. Y la venganza será Terrible...
January 22, 2020
Una delicia para los que hemos sido o somos oyentes de La Venganza. Un verdadero regalo para rememorar otros tiempos del programa y conocer alguna que otra cosa de las bambalinas.
También supongo que será de interés para aquellos estudiosos de los medios, que encontrarán respuestas sobre este programa-fenómeno, pero también pistas de lo que ha sido y es radio por estos tiempos.
También supongo que será de interés para aquellos estudiosos de los medios, que encontrarán respuestas sobre este programa-fenómeno, pero también pistas de lo que ha sido y es radio por estos tiempos.
September 2, 2021
Un libro muy entretenido sobre los primeros 30 años de este programa de radio. Anécdotas, radiocines, canciones, reflexiones. Dan ganas de escuchar un programa mientras lo lees (si eso tuviera algún sentido).
November 9, 2017
Excelente recorrido por la historia de un programa atemporal, con un genio eterno como es Dolina. Muy recomendable!!
July 15, 2020
Es un recorrido hermoso de la historia del programa que amo profundamente. Anécdotas, fotos, recuerdos. Un libro toda la vida.
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