Memorias

Publicado originalmente en 2003, el libro autobiográfico Memorias, de Helena Paz Garro, dividió opiniones entre los lectores y colocó en la agenda cultural del momento el pasado íntimo de la familia Paz Garro, así como su relación —social o secreta— con personajes como Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Aristóteles Onassis, María Callas, Pablo Picasso, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, María Zambrano y Juan de la Cabada, entre otros. Escritas con la pericia de una narradora oficiosa, con entraña y corazón, estas memorias de ...

“Siempre lo mismo... Conocí muchos lugares donde vendían droga, me olvidé rotundamente de mi enamorada, la droga pudo más que el amor. Me fui a vivir a un cerro con unos amigos delincuentes. Era como una casita de piedra con techo de plástico y hacíamos todos los días lo mismo, andábamos todo sucios, no nos importaba nada de la vida, sino sumergirnos más en la droga, éramos la lacra de la sociedad. Estuve muchos años en ese lugar y veía como la gente moría, otros terminaban locos y algunos se asesinaban entre ellos. El lugar era un verdadero infierno. Yo esperaba la muerte,...

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

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...