Enseñar a hablar a un monstruo

Teaching a Monster to Speak is the first nonfiction book by novelist, translator, and linguistics professor José C. Vales. A narrative and literary essay that offers us a journey to the origin of language, the evolution of languages and the miracle of writing. Armed with multiple questions and reflections (is language inherent to Homo sapiens or was its appearance gradual?...), the author proposes the different theories that explain why we are endowed with language, how it evolves and how it begins to be transcribed. A delicious, entertaining, interesting and suggestive reading regarding a universal theme explained with didactic eagerness and free of technicalities. With the style that characterizes the author, full of lucidity, wisdom and always with his ironic but friendly touch, we will discover the fascinating world of human communication.