Después de vivir un siglo : Una biografía de Violeta Parra

La primera biograf a completa de la cantante y poeta chilena en el centenario de su nacimiento Mucho se ha dicho y escrito acerca de Violeta Parra. Pero, fue realmente esa campesina pobre del sur de Chile que lleg al estrellato universal contra viento y marea? Por qu reci n a los 35 a os comienza a existir la Violeta que todos conocemos? C mo surgieron sus canciones de protesta que se adelantaron a su tiempo hasta volverse himnos globales? En qu circunstancias compuso El Gavil n ? Por qu y c mo se suicid en febrero de 1967 Estas y muchas otras interrogantes se contestan en esta biograf a escrita por V ctor Herrero, quien investig exhaustivamente los archivos legales y la prensa de la poca y recogi durante dos a os testimonios desconocidos # incluidas las memorias in ditas del gran compa ero de Violeta, Gilbert Favre#, al tiempo que recorri los mismos senderos que camin Violeta en Chile en los a os 50, siguiendo tambi n su senda en Buenos Aires, Par s y Ginebra Herrero logra reconstruir a la mujer detr s del mito, a la mujer que logr convertirse en mito. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The first complete biography of Chilean poet and Singer Violeta Parra to commemorate the hundred years since her birth. A lot has been said and written about Violeta Parra, but was she really that poor country girl from the south of Chile who reached international fame against all odds? Why was it only until age 35 that we begin to know her as the Violeta we all know? How did she first think of those protest songs that she wrote so ahead of their times until becoming world anthems? How did she write her emblematic "El Gavil n"? How and why did she take her own life in February 1967? These and many other questions are answered in this biography by Victor Herrero Aguayo, who exhaustively researched local archives and newspaper clippings of that time, and for two years collected never-before-read testimonies, including the unpublished memoir by Violeta's partner Gilbert Favre. At the same time, he traveled through where Violeta had traveled in the 50s in Chile and abroad in Buenos Aires, Paris, and Geneva. The author successfully recreates the woman behind the myth, the woman who managed to become a myth.