Under Someone Else’s Rain

Juan Gelman



Carlos Alonso (illustrations)

«I close my eyes in the Roman sunshine. You pass over Rome, Sun, and in a few hours over what used to be my home, not taking me with you but lighting up places where I’m missing, which I claim, which claim me. You’ll warm them anyway, just when I’ll be shivering with cold.»

Juan Gelman wrote Under Someone Else’s Rain in 1980, during his exile in Rome. The texts in this book make up a mosaic of poignant reflections on exile, absence and grief. Created with a similar degree of feeling and depth, Carlos Alonso’s etchings resonate with Gelman’s words.

The combination of word and image generates an emotive statement of resplendent clarity.

160 x 240 mm; 64 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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Carlos Alonso

Tunuyán, Argentina, 1929



Painter, sculptor and illustrator, he studied Fine Art at the University of Cuyo, Mendoza, where he was taught by Lino Spilimbergo. He has illustrated works by Pablo Neruda, Dante Alighieri and Miguel de Cervantes. Since the seventies, the expressive power and social commitment that characterise his work have earned widespread recognition, with exhibitions all over the world. Between 1976 and 1981 he lived in exile in Rome and Madrid. Alonso is one of the great figures in Latin American art.

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