La chica de Cartagena

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Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search of that identity that was already beginning to glimpse with the discovery of blackness. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal make up the polyhedral scene of the vital transformation of Maryse, who walks through the revolutionary circles of African socialism and surrenders to the fever of...

Publicación de uno de los escasos testimonios autobiográficos que hasta el momento se han localizado de pensionados en el extranjero de la Junta para Ampliación de Estudios. Carmen Castilla (1895-1979), una maestra que había establecido una estrecha relación con María de Maeztu en la Residencia de Señoritas, en virtud de un acuerdo entre esta institución y Smith College viajó a esta elitista universidad para mujeres de Massachusetts durante el curso 1921-1922 para enseñar español y estudiar zoología, genética y pedagogía. El diario que escribió durante esos meses, que se saca a ...

Biografía crítica de un ser humano en sus realidades vitales, un hombre torturado, sensible, primitivo, enigmático, tocado de la gracia y la fatalidad del don del arte, elegido por el destino para convertirse en héroe cultural.