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Diarios de ninguna parte
Diarios de ninguna parte cierra la trilogía que compone con Diarios del Sáhara y Diarios de las Canarias. Sanmao revive escenas significativas que abrazan toda su vida, desde la infancia y juventud en Taipéi, pasando por los años preciosos junto a José, hasta el tiempo oscuro que siguió a la repentina desaparición de su marido. En esta colección de escritos autobiográficos, Sanmao trenza sueños, recuerdos y pesadillas, preguntándose ¿cómo debemos vivir?
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256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Sanmao
35 books139 followersSanmao (Chinese: 三毛; March 26, 1943 – January 4, 1991) was a Taiwanese writer and translator. Her works range from autobiographical writing, travel writing, and reflective novels, to translations of Spanish-language comic strips. She studied philosophy and taught German before becoming a career writer.
Born as Chen Mao-ping (陳懋平), her pen name was adopted from the main character of Zhang Leping's most famous work, Sanmao. In English, she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, after the eponymous Greek nymph.
Sanmao was born in Chongqing to Chen Siqing, a lawyer, and Miao Jinlan. She had an older sister, Chen Tianxin. Her parents were devout Christians. Her family was from Zhejiang. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the family moved to Nanjing. When she was six, her family moved to Taiwan because of the Communist takeover of mainland China. She disliked the lack of freedom in Taiwan's educational system, in which strict restrictions were placed on students.
As a child, she developed an early interest in literature and was exposed to famous Chinese writers, such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Lao She, and Yu Dafu. She read works such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, and Gone with the Wind. She was particularly interested in Dream of the Red Chamber and read it as a Grade 5 student during class. When asked what she wanted to become when she was older, she responded that she wanted to marry a great artist, specifically Pablo Picasso.
Due to her preoccupation with reading, Sanmao's grades suffered in middle school, particularly in mathematics. After a distressing incident when a teacher drew black circles around her eyes and humiliated her in front of her classmates, Sanmao stopped attending school. Her father taught her English and classical literature at home and hired tutors to teach her piano and painting.
In 1962, at age 19, Sanmao published her first essay. Sanmao studied philosophy at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, with the goal of "[finding] the solution to problems in life." There, she dated a fellow student; however, becoming "disillusioned with romance," she moved to Madrid, Spain at age 20 and began studying at the University of Madrid.
Sanmao later moved to Germany, where she intensively studied the German language, sometimes up to 16 hours per day. Within nine months, she earned a qualification to teach German and began studying ceramics.
At age 26, Sanmao returned to Taiwan. She was engaged to a teacher from Germany, but he died from a heart attack before they could marry. Sanmao returned to Madrid and began teaching English at a primary school.
In 1976 she published the autobiographical The Stories of the Sahara, which was on her experiences living in the Sahara together with her Spanish husband Jose, who she first met in Madrid and later married in 1973 while living together in the then Spanish-controlled Western Sahara. Part travelog and part memoir, it was an account of life and love in the desert and established Sanmao as an autobiographical writer with a unique voice and perspective. Following the book's immense success in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, her early writings were collected into a book, published under the title Gone With the Rainy Season. She continued to write, and her experiences in the Sahara and the Canary Islands were published in several more books.
In 1979 Jose drowned while diving. In 1980 she returned to Taiwan, and in November 1981, she traveled to Central and South America on commission from Taiwanese publishers. These experiences were recorded in subsequent writings. From 1981 to 1984, she taught and lectured at her alma mater, Chinese Culture University, in Taiwan. After this point, she decided to dedicate herself fully to writing.
Sanmao's books deal mainly with her own experiences studying and living abroad. They were extremely well received not only in Taiwan, but also in China, and they remain
Born as Chen Mao-ping (陳懋平), her pen name was adopted from the main character of Zhang Leping's most famous work, Sanmao. In English, she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, after the eponymous Greek nymph.
Sanmao was born in Chongqing to Chen Siqing, a lawyer, and Miao Jinlan. She had an older sister, Chen Tianxin. Her parents were devout Christians. Her family was from Zhejiang. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the family moved to Nanjing. When she was six, her family moved to Taiwan because of the Communist takeover of mainland China. She disliked the lack of freedom in Taiwan's educational system, in which strict restrictions were placed on students.
As a child, she developed an early interest in literature and was exposed to famous Chinese writers, such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Lao She, and Yu Dafu. She read works such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, and Gone with the Wind. She was particularly interested in Dream of the Red Chamber and read it as a Grade 5 student during class. When asked what she wanted to become when she was older, she responded that she wanted to marry a great artist, specifically Pablo Picasso.
Due to her preoccupation with reading, Sanmao's grades suffered in middle school, particularly in mathematics. After a distressing incident when a teacher drew black circles around her eyes and humiliated her in front of her classmates, Sanmao stopped attending school. Her father taught her English and classical literature at home and hired tutors to teach her piano and painting.
In 1962, at age 19, Sanmao published her first essay. Sanmao studied philosophy at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, with the goal of "[finding] the solution to problems in life." There, she dated a fellow student; however, becoming "disillusioned with romance," she moved to Madrid, Spain at age 20 and began studying at the University of Madrid.
Sanmao later moved to Germany, where she intensively studied the German language, sometimes up to 16 hours per day. Within nine months, she earned a qualification to teach German and began studying ceramics.
At age 26, Sanmao returned to Taiwan. She was engaged to a teacher from Germany, but he died from a heart attack before they could marry. Sanmao returned to Madrid and began teaching English at a primary school.
In 1976 she published the autobiographical The Stories of the Sahara, which was on her experiences living in the Sahara together with her Spanish husband Jose, who she first met in Madrid and later married in 1973 while living together in the then Spanish-controlled Western Sahara. Part travelog and part memoir, it was an account of life and love in the desert and established Sanmao as an autobiographical writer with a unique voice and perspective. Following the book's immense success in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, her early writings were collected into a book, published under the title Gone With the Rainy Season. She continued to write, and her experiences in the Sahara and the Canary Islands were published in several more books.
In 1979 Jose drowned while diving. In 1980 she returned to Taiwan, and in November 1981, she traveled to Central and South America on commission from Taiwanese publishers. These experiences were recorded in subsequent writings. From 1981 to 1984, she taught and lectured at her alma mater, Chinese Culture University, in Taiwan. After this point, she decided to dedicate herself fully to writing.
Sanmao's books deal mainly with her own experiences studying and living abroad. They were extremely well received not only in Taiwan, but also in China, and they remain
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March 22, 2024
«Durante el camino de vuelta a la casa que habíamos alquilado, nos cogimos de la mano con fuerza. Parecía como si, de esa manera, nos estuviéramos sujetando la vida el uno al otro para la eternidad. Sin embargo, yo me sentía triste».
Me han vuelto tantos recuerdos de cuando leí Diarios del Sáhara hace unos años... Sanmao tqm 🥹
Me han vuelto tantos recuerdos de cuando leí Diarios del Sáhara hace unos años... Sanmao tqm 🥹
May 26, 2020
Pasó un buen tiempo desde la última vez que un libro me hizo llorar. En ello tuvo mucho que ver que este, autobiográfico, literario y honesto, comenzara mostrando los escritos de una Sanmao adolescente de inocente rebeldía y limitada narrativa, continuara con los de una joven mujer aventurera pero tímida, en constante conflicto y pluma fluida y deliciosamente cínica que nos cuesta su cotidianidad, para terminar con los textos de una mujer envuelta en una profunda tristeza expresada con una narrativa humana, poética y desgarradora cuando todo se fue a la mierda. Sentí que la conocí. De cierta forma lo hice. Por eso, supongo, terminé acompañando su llanto.
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Ella fue mi primera —y hasta el momento única— escritora china. Es increíble como una mujer en apariencia tan vulnerable, tímida y nostálgica sea además un símbolo de libertad y feminismo en su inmenso país y en gran parte del continente asiático. No es solo por haber sido escritora en un mundo en el que estas eran —son— ignoradas, ni por dedicarse a recorrer el mundo y escribir sobre ello viniendo de un país hermético como lo era la China de los 80. Lo es porque se atrevió a enamorarse de otros mundos sin renunciar a sus raíces, pero sin aferrarse a ellas más de lo necesario. Eso se ve en su narrativa, siempre en contraste, siempre comparando el aquí y el allá, el antes y el ahora, con una curiosidad honesta que antoja seguir leyendo. Escribe sobre su vida, por momentos con rebeldía, en otros con gracioso cinismo, casi siempre con sentido de la aventura y, en ocasiones, con desgarradora tristeza. Pero siempre pareciera brutalmente honesta, como si al escribirle a unos eventuales lectores le estuviera hablando a unos viejos amigos. Leerla es conocer todas las facetas de una persona. Eso, creo, es lo que la hace tan especial. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Se suicidó en 1991. Después de leerla, es fácil imaginar por qué. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Ella fue mi primera —y hasta el momento única— escritora china. Es increíble como una mujer en apariencia tan vulnerable, tímida y nostálgica sea además un símbolo de libertad y feminismo en su inmenso país y en gran parte del continente asiático. No es solo por haber sido escritora en un mundo en el que estas eran —son— ignoradas, ni por dedicarse a recorrer el mundo y escribir sobre ello viniendo de un país hermético como lo era la China de los 80. Lo es porque se atrevió a enamorarse de otros mundos sin renunciar a sus raíces, pero sin aferrarse a ellas más de lo necesario. Eso se ve en su narrativa, siempre en contraste, siempre comparando el aquí y el allá, el antes y el ahora, con una curiosidad honesta que antoja seguir leyendo. Escribe sobre su vida, por momentos con rebeldía, en otros con gracioso cinismo, casi siempre con sentido de la aventura y, en ocasiones, con desgarradora tristeza. Pero siempre pareciera brutalmente honesta, como si al escribirle a unos eventuales lectores le estuviera hablando a unos viejos amigos. Leerla es conocer todas las facetas de una persona. Eso, creo, es lo que la hace tan especial. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Se suicidó en 1991. Después de leerla, es fácil imaginar por qué. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
May 24, 2020
Aunque a mi parecer carece del impacto y la belleza de los otros Diarios de Sanmao, sigue siendo una lectura bella, llena de hermosas reflexiones, de un lenguaje que ayuda a adentrarse fácilmente en la vida de esta mujer, como si estuvieras a su lado, sentada, viéndola en la cocina, paseando por el bosque, o comprando en un mercadillo.
September 24, 2022
Este es el último tomo que cierra la trilogía Diarios de.. de la editorial Rata, escrita por Sanmao. Es un texto con un sabor más agrio que los anteriores. Las historias finales, que fueron escritas después de que Sanmao perdiese a su marido, están sin duda cargadas de dolor. Personalmente, el último tercio del libro se me hizo triste y muy sentimental para mi gusto.
Yo me quedo con la Sanmao despreocupada y ocurrente de Diarios del Sáhara.
Yo me quedo con la Sanmao despreocupada y ocurrente de Diarios del Sáhara.
April 10, 2020
Para llorar, pensar en la vida, sentir todo y no querer sentir nada de lo abrumadora que puede ser Sanmao pero que hay que leer. Hay que leer.
December 15, 2022
Los relatos de juventud de Sanmao no me gustaron mucho, pero el resto si. Algunos alegres y otros desgarradores, dependiendo del momento en que los ha escrito.
January 19, 2024
Tengo el corazón rotisimo. Me he enfadado y llorado más de lo que pensaba. Como te siento Echo, espero que exista un más allá para que te hayas reencontrado con José y os podáis seguir queriendo tanto!
November 16, 2025
pfffff qué barbaridad
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