La trágica soledad del héroe

Gabriela Wiener writes about who she is and the way in which she lives, and does so with refreshing sincerity. These autobiographical stories invite us to immerse ourselves in her world and take a good look at a woman fighting her demons. It addresses a variety of issues such as migration, motherhood, fear of death, loneliness of hotel rooms, triplets, the mysterious number eleven, and many others. This book makes the everyday appear as something rich and complex.

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Es mi historia y a la vez no lo es. Esta historia podría ser tuya también. Un libro que se escribió solo y me escribió a mi misma. La transmutación espiritual a través de vivencias personales y todo lo que me ha ido marcando como ser humano.

Hace casi tres decadas, en un remoto pais del sur del mundo, llamado Chile, un pequenisimo equipo de filmacion salio a la calle a registrar lo que estaba sucediendo. Las imagenes son hoy conocidas, los hechos tambien. El material filmado, una vez fuera del pais, y montado durante meses y anos, formo un triptico inolvidable, una de las peliculas mas poderosas del siglo XX: La batalla de Chile. Seria incorrecto e injusto, sin embargo asociar a su director, Patricio Guzman, solamente con La batalla de Chile, por excelente que ella sea. A lo largo de casi treinta anos Guzman desarrollo una obra...