by Ramón Chao · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432296550
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Immerse yourself in the life of Carolina Otero through this secret and erotic diary. From her humble beginnings as a maid and dancer to becoming a legendary courtesan, known as the 'man-eater', Carolina knew how to use her beauty to overcome unhappiness. This novel reveals the bourgeois society of the time, dominated by appearances and hypocrisy, showing Carolina as the hidden face behind the mask of carnival, pleasure and vice. Ramón Chao narrates the rise of a village girl to the most prominent courtesan, who captivated figures such as Alfonso XIII, Leopold II of Belgium and Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
Ramón Luís Chao Rego was a Spanish journalist and writer. He won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955. The same year he moved to Paris, France to study music with Nadia Boulanger and Lazare Lévy. In 1960 he began his collaboration with the RTF's Iberian Languages Service. He was head of this service ten years later. At the same time he was collaborating with the Spanish weekly Triunfo, the monthly Le Monde Diplomatique, and the daily newspapers Le Monde and La Voz de Galicia.
