De mi Vida y otras Vidas

From my life and other lives went out to the street in 1949 when B. Sanín Cano turned 88 years old. It was the last months of the administration of President Ospina Pérez and the imminent election of Laureano Gómez to the throne of Bolívar and Santander. Day after day the newspapers reported on the violence in the countryside and on the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, a tension that would last forty years under the name of "cold war". Sanín lived from journalism and every week readers found out about national and international politics and the literary news that appeared with his name in the country's newspapers and magazines. Looking back at his achievements, it is clear that he had been dedicated to the writing efforts for more than half a century, which added up to six books published abroad and no less than two thousand articles written, many of them in the essay format. A sample of these last ones could be read, or revisited, in another half a dozen national volumes that were sold without haste in the bookstores of the capital and the provinces.