Una mujer, un plan

«La escritora brasileña Nélida Piñon habla y escribe como si la habitase un misterio insondable.» Via Política «Decido yo misma engendrar leyendas y episodios que me son atribuidos, siempre teniendo como disculpa la condición de escritora, a quien es dado el privilegio de inventar sin sufrir sanciones morales. Así, enlazo los temas posibles para entenderme mejor, para subsidiar los recursos de la memoria, que me abastece con la habilidad de recordar los hechos ocurridos hoy, ayer, milenios atrás, que juzgo míos, pertenecientes a mi esfera tribal. Una memoria que, al servicio de la...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Esta proyección por etapas de la vida, corresponde en gran medida a hechos y situaciones reales. Más de algun lector podría reencontrase, definitivamente identificado con la sustancia misma del relato, en las enorme-pequeñas fantasías que lo acompañan o volver esta seudo ficción en propia y terrible verdad. Los personajes abundan y todos pudieran tener un común denominador que los reunió en alguna parte de la vida, pero que los separaba rotundamente en momentos claves en la vida y obra de cada uno.

When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease. Thirty years after his death, AA continues to help millions of alcoholics recover from what had been commonly regarded as a hopeless addiction. Still, while Wilson was a visionary for millions, he was no saint. After cofounding Alcoholics Anonymous, he stayed sober for over thirty-five years, helping countless thousands rebuild their lives. But at the same time, Wilson suffered form debilitating bouts of clinical...