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En estas conversaciones con la escritora Rauda Jamís, Freund desgrana sus recuerdos en un texto que constituye al mismo tiempo una interesante biografía y un lúcido ensayo.+

"El médico rural", publicado en 1912, sigue los primeros años de ejercicio en la profesión médica de Esteban, un joven e inexperimentado médico, desde los primeros años de buenas intenciones hasta la corrupción final. Felipe Trigo deja en este caso en segundo plano el erotismo, tema principal en otras novelas, para centrarse en analizar en profundidad la vida rural española de la época. Se considera una novela con rasgos autobiográficos que se completa con la historia que el autor inició en la obra En la carrera. Felipe Trigo (1864-1916), un médico, militar y escritor. Es...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease. Thirty years after his death, AA continues to help millions of alcoholics recover from what had been commonly regarded as a hopeless addiction. Still, while Wilson was a visionary for millions, he was no saint. After cofounding Alcoholics Anonymous, he stayed sober for over thirty-five years, helping countless thousands rebuild their lives. But at the same time, Wilson suffered form debilitating bouts of clinical...