Las cinco personas...

Question

Este relato es sobre un hombre que se llamaba Eddie y empieza por el final, con Eddie muriendo al sol. Puede parecer raro que un relato empiece por el final, pero todos los finales son también comienzos, lo que pasa es que no lo sabemos en su momento.

This story is about a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sunlight(or maybe dying from the heat of the sun?). It (is able to) might seem rare that a story starts at the end, but all of the endings are also new beginnings, what happens is that we don't know it in his(your?) moment.

This seems to be about heaven. The title of the book is called the five people you will meet in heaven. Las cinco personas que encontrarás en el cielo. In that context does this take on an extra meaning?

(I apologize for the confusion, I'm trying to be certain I understand the words in this book, so I ask that someone attempt to see if my English translation is accurate. I'm particularly confused about the part in bold.

Eddy??? Pero bueno...Eddy no puede morir!!!!! jeje - 00494d19, Sep 19, 2009

Fred, which category did you want to post this in? Is this a proofreading? - 00494d19, Sep 19, 2009

Answer 1

Este relato es sobre un hombre que se llamaba Eddie y empieza por el final, con Eddie muriendo al sol. Puede parecer raro que un relato empiece por el final, pero todos los finales son también comienzos, lo que pasa es que no lo sabemos en su momento.

This story is about a man named (or who used to be known as) Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying from the sun. It may seem strange that a story would begin at the end, but all endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time.

That is my best approximation

Ah, gracias - Fredbong, Sep 20, 2009

Answer 2

I apologize, I was looking for someone to correct my translation into English, I had thought that would be under proofreading. Which category would that be under?

And it is llamaba, my English translation was put forward incorrectly. I should have said "was called." I.E. he was called that but is dead now so can't be called so anymore. The spanish is directly from a book, although I suppose they might have written it wrong, but I think it was written in Spanish originally.

Answer 3

HI Fred, sorry, I don't get your question.

Este relato es sobre un hombre que se llama Eddie y empieza por el final,

We would use present simple here, we call that"presente narrativo".