La amargura metódica

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...

En esta presente obra, a manera de comienzo, puede leerse la a dvertencia de que la misma versa sobre lo que es una realidad del crudo mundo del a lcoholismo en nuestros días. Se hace hincapié en que es un libro a pegado en lo posible a l contexto del a mbiente real que, en su momento, por ventura o desventura, el a utor tuvo que vivir, haciendo la indicación que a unque a ratos en a lgo parezca ficción, en ningún caso lo es. Sino que por lo contrario, el texto es un mensaje y contiene nombres de lugares, gentes y fechas verídicas que conforman este a rgumento que, hoy a modo de a...

Quince escritores (narradores, poetas, ensayistas) menores de cuarenta años hurgan entre las huellas que han marcado su memoria y ejercen su oficio: escribir, construir, acosar, narrar, recrear, acaso inventar para ofrecernos este mosaico que se llama Trazos en el espejo. Rápidos esbozos narrativos de momentos clave, pasiones, dramas, pobrezas, aventuras librescas, escenas de lo cotidiano y lo singular.

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...