Memorias de la Condesa de Espoz y Mina

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...

No sería correcto dejar ir la vida en palabras, por esa sencilla razón las tomaré como medio para expresar el conjunto de cosas y contenidos que forman la apertura del mundo a unos ojos inexpertos y ansiosos por alimentarse de la visión humana, natural, universal y del propio lugar de origen para lograr adquirir un enfoque personal. Un enfoque que surgió y se solidificó por las obras de aquellos artistas de la literatura que inspiraron a seguirlos con admiración plena por su legado, haciendo de esto un tributo a ellos, ya que sin la existencia de esas mentes iluminadas y creadoras no...

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

Una niña inteligente y atrevida, Satrapi--hija de Marxistas radicales i viz-nieta del ultimo emperador de Iran--se hace testigo de una niǹez unica envuelta con la historia de su pais.