Mi camino

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."

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...

Ambicioso, seductor, déspota, genio político, terrorista por temperamento y por sistema, pluma talentosa, demagogo exaltado, estadista de carácter, trabajador incansable, traidor y corrupto, honesto y fiel, oportunista, patriota. Esos y muchos otros juicios contradictorios ha recibido la corta vida pública del jacobino Bernardo Monteagudo.

Luis Campos Górriz nace en Valencia el 30 de junio de 1905. Su vida trascurre en su tierra en medio de una aparente cotidianidad: la escuela, la universidad, las asociaciones de estudiantes, las oposiciones, el ejercicio profesional. Morirá en Paterna, en 1936, fusilado, siendo Secretario General de la Asociación Católica de Propagandistas. El 11 de marzo de 2001 es beatificado en la plaza de San Pedro, en Roma, junto a otros 232 mártires valencianos. Este libro es la reedición del que su compañero Roberto Moróder Molina escribió en 1954 con el título Vida y ejemplo del mártir Luis ...