Unos pocos amigos verdaderos

the long version

This is the life-story of Spanish painter, dramatist, theatrical designer and actor Santiago Otañon. Containing references to more than 500 artists of renown -many of them personal recollections of the author- the book is somehow a vivid encyclopaedia of a vibrant period of 20th century european culture. Several illustrations show reproductions of the author's work as a painter and photographs of Spanish writers belonging to the famous '1927 generation'. One of them, painter and poet Rafael Alberti, designed the colorful cover of the book. It also contains an amicable foreword of his and a facsimile reproduction of a poem he wrote on the occasion of the author's 77th birthday.