Lo que el mar despertó. Voz testimonial de un tsunami en Chile

My dad envies me. I've been an orphan since I was eight months old. Unfortunately, I was mistreated by a bad and envious father, and my whole life has been a torment with him. I will describe, in this book, my father as the person who has done the most harm to me throughout my life, for I have never encountered another person like him. Throughout my life, he has sabotaged my achievements, put me wrong with all the family and friends, and never wanted me to get ahead because he feels less than me. Of course, I have forgiven him for all the evil he has done to me, and I ask God to give him good ...

Este relato estremecedor es un testimonio historiográfico acerca de Teresa Andrés, una persona aún poco conocida, pero cuya trayectoria personal y profesional representa las esperanzas de progreso y renovación cultural que fueron brutalmente truncadas por la Guerra Civil y el exilio. Nacida en 1907, inició su actividad en el ámbito bibliotecario adquiriendo un fuerte compromiso por la democratización de la cultura. Declarada la Guerra Civil, fue responsable de la sección de bibliotecas de Cultura Popular, e intervino en la creación de bibliotecas en hospitales, batallones y hogares...

Los versos de Rafael Cadenas se convierten constantemente en armas para la rebeldía. Poesía terca, que desde la caída se magnifica y cuyo trazo deja el deslumbramiento, la insistencia de vivir en ese saberse ausente inexistente. Lina Zerón

I "write my songs/ so people can sing them to me/and the day people fail me/ that day I 'm going to cry... These are famous verses whose origin we are going to find out in this book, which rescues unknown anecdotes from the composer. Reading it is, in the words of his daughter Paloma, "go on singing his songs to do not fail him."