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"Eduardo Arroyo. Minutes of a testament" (Memoirs)
The self-portrait of an entire post-war generation, exile, anti-Franco struggle, bohemia and, finally, freedom, success and glamour.
The memoirs of Eduardo Arroyo, an artist in the broad sense and a leading intellectual, have the vocation to be read as "a string of confidences full of stories" and to "leave everything said, everything sewn, everything tied".
"As I write these lines, I do not appear to be in poor health (I do the please necessary). […] My transaminases are a bit high, so I've almost given up on my beloved Negronis (a third of gin, a third of Punt e Mes and a third of Campari, plus a few drops of angostura and a slice of orange) .
I have also decidedly abandoned beer: it happened in Belgium […] on the eve of the premiere of Boris godunov at the La Monnaie theater in Brussels […]. There I realized that I had definitely stopped being interested in that sparkling drink, but not the occasional glass of white or red wine to accompany lunch and dinner. I also noticed that the 'pulp complex' had been removed."
Extracted from Editorial Taurus
See also:
http://www.literaturas.com/v010/sec0910/libros_resenas/resena-01.html
http://www.soitu.es/soitu/2009/03/25/info/1237991193_020181.html
The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in having access to them, you can check their availability in the catalog of the library
Brook, Edward (1937-)
Minutes of a testament / Eduardo Arroyo. — Madrid: Taurus, 2009.
328 p., [11] h. of lam ; 24cm
ISBN 978-84-306-0764-8
R. 98943000
