Sabiduria en pìldoras en la vida y en la obra de Antonio Porchia

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...

La biografía de Elisa Giambelluca (1941-1986), corta en extensión y densa en contenido, podría ser semejante a la de cualquier mujer profesional de su época: una profesora de matemáticas y física en centros de Enseñanza Media y después directora de un Istituto Magistrale, semejante a lo que en España sería entonces una Escuela Normal para estudiantes de Magisterio. Nada de particular en esta italiana bajita y simpática, pero sus familiares y amigos, sus compañeros profesores y sus alumnos, reconocían en ella una difícil sencillez, una naturalidad, una ausencia de protagonismo,...

The author discusses his own homosexuality, his emotional and intellectual odyssey toward becoming a writer, his relationships with Reynaldo Arenas and Manuel Puig, and how they, as well as Federico García Lorca, faced homophobia, in a personal look at what it means to grow up in Latin America as a homosexual. (Social Science)

Un libro que habla del otro Perón, del íntimo, del humano, del hombre y su contexto, recorriendo anécdotas y momentos clave de la historia del peronismo y su líder.