Memorias De Los Espíritus Y Mi Madre

Córdoba, land of culture and great artists, was the hand that rocked the cradle of one of the great painters in history: Julio Romero de Torres. City and painter become one through these pages, where the lesser known details of the life and work Julio Romero de Torres had is approached and resolved.

This is the true story of a family forced to live halfway across the world from their homeland. Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband Carl, lived in Germany before the Nazis forced the couple to flee with their two daughters. After finding Backwoods Farms in Vermont, Alice wrote this memoir about their time there building chicken coops and breaking up duck fights. Despite endless work, brutal winters and melancholy, she discovered that they had found a home.

«Uno no acaba de saber “de qué va” un libro hasta que ha terminado de juntar las piezas. Extiendo ahora las cartas sobre la mesa, y me doy cuenta de que esta constelación de relatos breves y novelas cortas, de paseos y recuerdos entre la ficción y la crónica, dibuja, a su manera, una nueva entrega (otras voces, otras épocas, otras formas) de la autobiografía que comenzó con Un jardín abandonado por los pájaros, porque a fin de cuentas resulta que me parezco bastante a ese tipo que asoma por muchas de las esquinas, bajo diversas luces, con abrigos o camisas hawaianas, bigotes...

These 44 profiles of universal writers along with their portraits, will help you see how the way of living of the writers affected their work.