Zapata

Si de las biografías de Fernando Pessoa se descuenta las partes que se refieren a las dolencias mentales del personaje, a su obra literaria, a la dimensión esotérica presente en la vida y en la obra del poeta, y al diletantismo político al que tantas veces este se entregó, en el mejor de los casos quedan unas pocas decenas de páginas para examinar la condición material de un ser humano profundamente desgraciado y, al tiempo, y en otra dimensión, secretamente feliz. Este libro bucea en lo que esas biografías consideran de relieve menor para estudiar aspectos de la vida de Pessoa que...

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...

Decía Winston Churchill que el éxito consistía en peregrinar de fracaso en fracaso sin perder el ánimo. Una reflexión que se puede aplicar perfectamente al protagonista de este libro. Agredido por un descendiente directo de un neandertal; expulsado de la vivienda que compartía con su pareja, previo expolio económico de ésta; condenado por un delito que no cometió; a punto de ser desahuciado; acosado por una enferma mental. La lista de sucesos, incidentes y vicisitudes, que acosan sin descanso al protagonista, es amplia y variada. Es la historia de un hombre acostumbrado a tener que...

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...