Yeser Berro

“To walk on the earth after a rainstorm is to be in touch with absolute fulfillment: the earth, satisfied, floods us with its well-being, while its many aromas saturate the air and fill us with life-creating impulses.”
― Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

“Books that were pillars of our parents’ culture, the Chilean little bourgeoisie of the 30s-40s-50s: The Revolt of the Masses (Ortega), Tragic Sense of Life (Unamuno), The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck), The Importance of Living (Lin Yutang), Grand Hotel (Vicki Baum), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin), Gog (Papini), Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell), The Mediocre Man (Ingenieros), Broad and Alien is the World (Ciro Alegría), The World of Yesterday (S. Zweig), The Life of Jesus (Renan), Napoléon (Emil Ludwig), The Goose Man (Wassermann), The Prophet (Gibran), The inferiority complex (Adler), Civilization and its Discontents (Freud), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), The Human Beast (Zola), The Lily of the Valley (Balzac), Representative Men (Emerson), Modern Medical Counselor (?), How Green Was my Valley (Llewellyn), The Foxes of Harrow (Yerby), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), Amiel’s Journal (Amiel), The Story of San Michele (Munthe), Maxims and Morals from Dr. Franklin (Franklin), The Kon-Tiki Expedition (Heyerdahl), My Life (many), Desolation (Mistral), The Old Man and the Sea, Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), Letter from an Unknown Woman (Zweig), The City and the Mountains (Eça de Queirós), All Quiet on the Western Front (E. M. Remarque), Encyclopedia Britannica, Enciclopedia Espasa, The Treasure Book of Youth, La tournée de Dios (Jardiel Poncela), Don Juan (Zorrilla), La Tía Pepa (cook book), Almanaque 18, The Magic Mountain (Mann), The Unloved Woman (Benavente). To be continued.”
― Raúl Ruiz, Diario; Notas, recuerdos y secuencias de cosas vistas

“Today, rhetorical spring, sun, somewhat cold wind and quick clouds. Reading Arseni Tarkovski. Other poets had filmmaker sons: Mijalkov, Bertolucci. It's a way of escaping the words and into the images and from the images towards drama (the movement).”
― Raúl Ruiz, Diario; Notas, recuerdos y secuencias de cosas vistas

“Books read by me and my friends between 1947-1957: Lautaro (Fernando Alegría), La Hechizada, El Mestizo Alejo (Víctor Domingo Silva), On Panta (and others by Mariano Latorre), Robin Hood (anonymous), La Araucana (Ercilla), Little Men (L. M. Alcott), Monica Sanders (S. Reyes), Gypsy Ballads (García Lorca), The Maurizius Case (J. Wassermann), The Skin (Curzio Malaparte), The Vortex (J. E. Rivera), Demian (H. Hesse), Point Counter Point, Ape and Essence, Brave New World and others (Huxley).”
― Raúl Ruiz, Diario; Notas, recuerdos y secuencias de cosas vistas