Louis Carlos Bernal

Víctor Casaus narra en esta obra los acontecimientos que marcaron la vida del poeta, cro-nista y escritor Pablo de la Torriente Brau, considerado como una de las figuras más repre-sentativas del periodismo cubano. A partir de los testimonios de sus familiares y amigos más cercanos, el autor rescata y reivindica el papel que Pablo desempeñó durante la dictadura de Gerardo Machado.

"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often chastised even by...

Como todo gran libro de memorias, esta AUTOBIOGRAFÍA –cuyo impresionante caudal de datos es canalizado por una estructura perfectamente trabada- no se agota en sus aspectos meramente informativos; «hay en ella –señala Carlos Mellizo, prologuista y traductor de la obra– otra dimensión menos obvia, más universal y profunda, que la eleva y enriquece». Por las páginas del volumen desfilan innumerables personajes que permiten reconstruir el panorama intelectual y político de Inglaterra en una época crucial de la moderna cultura europea. Pero es la historia del aprendizaje...

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