This book contains ninety-nine literary treatises, written at different times according to the author’s intellectual state during three years. The time of writing each of them was indicated according to its date, which were divided into four sections and classified into the seasons of the year, “summer, fall, winter, and spring.” ", according to what she carries in her heart regarding the appearance and meaning of the chapter.
The puppeteer Dingo's carriage hits a young child while passing through the village of Artemilla, the miserable village from which he fled years ago to join a troupe of acrobats, aspiring to make his entire life a continuous festival. He resorts to his old friend, Juan Medinao, to help him in this predicament, but his contact with the village master will finally awaken the details of the painful past, and with them he will begin a relentless journey through memory, recalling his relationship with his father, his mother’s suicide, and the mixture of hatred and love that he felt towards his brother. Stepbrother.
In this small-sized novel, but with a big impact, Anna Maria Matute is able to delve into the depths of her characters, searching for the deep scars that childhood leaves in their souls, revealing with keen insight and high sensitivity the most complex and profound human feelings, in a dense narrative that makes room for emotional feelings. Inferiority, fear, isolation, and hatred can tell their story too.
الجمهورية هو حوار سقراطي ألفه أفلاطون حوالي عام 380 قبل الميلاد، يتحدث عن تعريف العدالة ، والنظام، وطبيعة الدولة العادلة والإنسان العادل. الجمهورية هي المؤلف السياسي الرئيسي لأفلاطون وأسماها «كاليبوس».