Thomas Merton

En 1939, Otília Castellví, una modista idealista y decidida del barrio de Gracia de Barcelona, tuvo que emprender, como tantos otros, el camino del exilio. Antes, sin embargo, había vivido los convulsos acontecimientos de octubre de 1934, y sufrido en carne propia la tétrica realidad de los calabozos de la Checa, en los que fue encarcelada por pertenecer a un partido troskista (el POUM). «La muerte llegó aquel día a Barcelona. Todos la presentimos y, por desgracia, no nos equivocamos». Empezó entonces para ella un largo viaje, marcado por los campos de concentración franceses en las ...

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

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."