Let us create the new man/ Rafael Alberti
Poem by Rafael Alberti; translated by Louis Villalba Rafael Alberti was born next to my hometown—Cadiz, Spain—in Puerto Santamaria. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the XX century. His Marxist views forced him into exile during the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1964. After the death […]
Ideas that will cause our head to be cut off/ Camilo Jose Cela
The thoughts that drive us crazy with the worst of follies, those of sadness, always arrive little by little without feeling, like fog invades the fields or consumption the chest. It advances fatal, tireless, but slow and regular like a pulse. Today we do not notice it; maybe neither tomorrow, nor the day after tomorrow, […]
