... y Me Hice Abuela

En toda la historia de la Iglesia española seguramente no ha habido un misionero que haya predicado tanto como el padre Eduardo Rodríguez, sj. Su voz cascada y monótona ha sonado durante medio siglo por millares de púlpitos de España y de América, anunciando siempre a Jesucristo. Esta biografía se ha escrito a petición de muchas personas que deseaban mantener el recuerdo del misionero que tanta paz sembró en sus corazones. Rodríguez fue apóstol de la reconciliación cristiana después de la guerra civil. Recorrió centenares de poblaciones recristianizando a los alejados y...

The visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods... Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is left in the pipeline. And, if we talk about Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, life and work intersect and interact until they merge in the trajectory of this author. In these pages he evokes his early first steps as a loving child poet in Matanzas, the discovery of sex and masturbation, life on the streets, his youth in the harshest and most...

Crónicas de efectos desternillantes o nostálgicos se suceden y se alternan en este volumen creando el efecto de una biografía dispersa y fragmentaria que ofrece claves, destellos e imágenes siempre originales de la vida, la creación y el espíritu de nuestro poeta mayor. Neruda “derramaba inconteniblemente su amistad como sus versos”, dice el escritor uruguayo Carlos Martínez Moreno y en el libro de Varas los amigos de Neruda: Margarita Aguirre, Juvencio Valle, Rubén Azócar (a) “el cara de hombre”, Picasso, Paul Eluard, el excéntrico Acario Cotapos, el arquitecto Alberto...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...