María Skobtsov

Aunque no era una figura central de la generación beat, sino más bien un personaje secundario, Joyce Johnson -pareja de Jack Kerouac en aquella época- se convirtió, años después, en una de sus mejores cronistas.

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...

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

El presente adquiere mayor claridad si conocemos nuestro pasado, si al interpretarlo lo encarnamos y con ese conocimiento conformamos una filosof a, una raz n cuya meta es la felicidad. As lo observa Eugenia Meyer en este libro que presenta las se as particulares de un autor, su obra y su legado: el historiador Edumundo O'gorman, de quien recupera buena parte de sus textos, hasta ahora dispersos. Los ensayos introductorias y los comentarios al pie de p gina conducir n al lector por el mundo y legado de uno de los escritores mexicanos m s importantes del siglo XX.