Living my life

672 pages

English language

Published June 6, 2006 by Penguin Group.

ISBN:
978-0-14-243785-8
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Living My Life is the autobiography of Lithuanian-born anarchist Emma Goldman, who became internationally renowned as an activist based in the United States. It was published in two volumes in 1931 (Alfred A. Knopf) and 1934 (Garden City Publishing Company). Goldman wrote it while living in Saint-Tropez, France, following her disillusionment with the Bolshevik role in the Russian revolution. The text thoroughly covers her personal and political life from early childhood through to 1927. The book has constantly remained in print since, in original and abridged editions. Since the autobiography was published nine years before Goldman died in 1940, it does not record her role in the Spanish Civil War.

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La primera parte de una autobiografía muy interesante de la anarquista Emma Goldman; el primer volumen cubre desde su llegada a Nueva York el año 1889 hasta el secuestro de Ben L. Reitman en San Diego en 1912 y su viaje posterior a Seattle.

Viviendo una vida muy diferente a la suya, me ha sorprendido la apertura de miras, la sinceridad, honestidad y el altruismo de esta mujer. Sobre todo me ha resultado muy interesante el retrato de las condiciones obreras a lo largo de finales del siglo XIX, en especial de la sociedad estadounidense y de las reacciones a la que consideraban "la mujer más peligrosa de América".

Espero leer pronto la segunda parte (y que no me quede atascada en la página 50 durante tres años).

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  • Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
  • Anarchists -- United States -- Biography

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