Aurora Bernárdez

Aurora Bernárdez

El libro de Aurora

El libro de Aurora / Aurora's Book

Biography / Memoirs , 2017

Alfaguara

“I think I always had a vocation for darkness and secrecy.”

With this sentence, written in a notebook toward the end of her life, Aurora Bernárdez summed up her unique bond with literature. To follow this vocation, which she never betrayed, Bernárdez limited her public appearances to the strictly necessary and kept the exercise of her own creations to herself. El libro de Aurora brings together poems, short stories and notes from a woman who was a brilliant translator, the first reader of Julio Cortázar’s works and his literary executor. It also contains the extensive transcription of the only interview she gave. These previously unpublished texts reflect Bernárdez’s intelligence, delicacy, talent and humour. They paint a picture of a 20th-century woman, a lady of letters who went to Paris for love, whose friendship with her publishers brings her back to us now in this book.

'Aurora Bernárdez escapa del silencio', Juan Cruz, El País, 15/06/2017

'La autora oculta tras un cronopio', Matías Néspolo, El Mundo, 3/08/2017

Reseña por Hugo Beccacece, La Nación, 27/08/2017