Apuntes biográficos sobre Joseph Haydn

Las esperadas memorias de Josefina Aldecoa. �En este libro hay una buena parte de mi vida hecha, deshecha, reconstruida, como un gran puzle. Irremediablemente faltan piezas, fragmentos. Hay espacios vac�os. Estoy segura de que alguno de ellos encierra en su oquedad un recuerdo intolerable que he tachado sin saberlo, que no merece el precio del recuerdo. Al final del viaje, cerca del puerto definitivo que se adivina entre la niebla, la memoria trabaja. El recuerdo reconstruye lo que fue real, adivina lo que aparece sumido en la oscuridad. Nos devuelve, en secuencias brillantes o brumosas,...

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I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...

Un mes en la vida de una mujer, escritora, esposa y madre de cuatro hijos que busca la estabilidad depositando sobre su lengua dos gotas de LSD. «Dos días después abrí el buzón y encontré un paquete. En el remite decía "Lewis Carroll". Dentro encontré un frasquito de color azul cobalto.» Hasta entonces, Ayelet Waldman había probado todas las terapias imaginables, de la farmacopea al mindfulness. Pero las tempestades anímicas que le provocaba su trastorno bipolar eran insoportables; marido e hijos sufrían con ella. Dos gotas del frasquito en la lengua y Ayelet se suma a la legión...