Title: Unos pocos amigos verdaderos
Description: 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.
Subjects: '1927 generation', 2nd Spanish Republic, Artists, Biography, Intellectual life, Spanish Arts, theatrical design
Places: Cantabria, Madrid, Paris, Spain
People: FedericoGarcía Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Salvador Dalì, Teresa León
Time periods: 20th century