La montonera

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When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Con prólogo de Raphael y fotografías inéditas, Frente al espejo recoge las memorias y confesiones de Terelu Campos. Terelu Campos. Frente al espejo es una conversación íntima entre amigos. Una confesión con el ánimo de agradecer a la vida. Un repaso en un momento crucial. Un poner por escrito lo que nunca se ha dicho. Una forma de sincerarse frente al espejo.

A la hora de rememorar a su hija fallecida, Twain acaba hablándonos de las personas que vivían en la casa. En especial es muy interesante el retrato del "mayordomo" George, personaje de color, que se las sabe todas. Ídolo de los niños, su figura constituye una aguda reflexión sobre el papel de los afroamericanos en una familia blanca.