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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.

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...

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...

En medio del mar, sentado en una embarcación de plástico abarrotada de personas que gritaban, desesperadas, Ahmad se quedó mirando los ojos inocentes del bebé que sostenía. Volvía a sentir la muerte cerca y, esta vez, estaba convencido de que lo iba a alcanzar. Nació en el seno de una familia amorosa, era feliz y quería ser actor. Empezó el servicio militar a los dieciocho años, meses antes de que estallara la guerra civil siria en 2011. Una complicación médica le salvó del ejército, pero su vida ya había cambiado para siempre. A su alrededor el mundo que conocía se...