The man and his ancestors
1898-1986
- “…for years I believed I had grown up in a suburb … of risky streets and visible sunsets. The truth is I grew up in a garden, behind lanceolate railings, and in a library of unlimited English books.” (Evaristo Carriego, 1930)
- “Little has happened in my life, but I have read a great deal, which is to say I have found few things more memorable than Schopenhauer’s ideas and the verbal music of England.
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Over the years fills a given surface with images of provinces and kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fish, rooms, instruments, heavenly bodies, horses and people. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.” (“Epilogue”, The Maker, 1960).