Book Launch: “Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone” by Beatriz Dujovne
Online N/A, PortlandBeatriz will be reading excerpts of her memoir. In this book all human emotions deserve a place of honor: life, death, morning, love, happiness, anger… The author’s American and Argentine cultures, the chronological time and Kairos, the more human time, reality and fantasy, are intertwined from Introduction to the Epilogue. We follow her to Buenos Aires from her present home in Portland, where she journeys to rekindle her life after the death of her life long husband. We partake in her internal and external experiences: those special spots where her love affair with him bloomed and took hold, her psychotherapy sessions with an Argentine psychoanalyst, the life force of the metropolis itself, and the warmth of its habitants. And we also witness how all these…