Dedicated perhaps to the most outstanding figure in the tradition of Argentine tango, this biography of Carlos Gardel not only responds to what is minimally expected of the genre: to account for the milestones and situations that articulated the most significant of the vital journey of a character -that S. Collier fulfills, revealing the enormous intellectual talent that presided over his extensive historiographical work- but also, it involves a kind of very interesting narrative model, provoking an intense and even passionate reading of the text. And the secret of this is very simple: to unite the analytical attribute around the facts, an outstanding exhibition quality that traps the reader in a tra©?na that allows him to approach, through a singular life, both the broad stage of an era ( first decades of the 20th century), as well as the development of a mass musical culture: that of tango. Dedicada quiz©? si a la figura m©?s se©?era en la tradici©?n del tango argentino, esta biograf©?a de Carlos Gardel no s©?lo responde a lo que m©?nimamente se espera del g©?nero: dar cuenta de los hitos y situaciones que articularon lo m©?s significativo del trayecto vital de un personaje -tarea que S. Collier cumple con creces, revelando el enorme talento intelectual que presidi©? su amplia labor historiogr©?fica- sino tambi©?n, comporta una suerte de modelo narrativo muy interesante, suscitando una lectura intensa y hasta apasionada del texto.