Aurora's Book. Texts, conversations, notes by Aurora Bernárdez

Aurora's Book is an exquisite collection of texts by the Argentine writer, translator, and intellectual Aurora Bernárdez. The book brings together letters, diaries, essays, and translations that provide a profound insight into her multifaceted personality and profound erudition. She was not only the wife and literary heiress of Julio Cortázar, but also an outstanding figure in the literary world of the 20th century. The book opens up to the reader the intimate world of thoughts, experiences, and intellectual pursuits of a woman who usually remained in the shadows but had a powerful voice.

A posthumous publication that for the first time reveals to the world the literary legacy of Aurora Bernárdez, an Argentine translator, writer, and first wife of Julio Cortázar. The book was published in 2017 by Alfaguara Publishing House and is a valuable testimony to the inner world of a woman who remained in the shadow of the great writer for many years, although she herself had deep creative potential.

Bernárdez describes herself as someone with a “vocation to darkness and mystery”—she consciously avoided publicity, focusing on her inner world and literary work. Her texts are full of intellectual depth, delicacy, humor, and subtle lyricism. Through these works, a portrait emerges of a 20th-century woman who, despite her closeness to the great writer, retained her own voice and vision of the world.

This publication is not only a literary event, but also an act of returning the voice to a woman who had long remained in the shadows, but who had something to say to the world.