Introducción a Teresa de Jesús

It runs in 1562 and Teresa de Jesús, at forty-seven years old, is housed in the Luisa de la Cerda palace in Toledo. Comforting her hostess from the melancholy caused by the death of her husband, she waits for the foundation of her new convent to flourish and dedicates herself to writing a text destined to become a decisive work in the birth of the autobiographical genre, The Book of Life, which must please its ecclesiastical superiors and defend it before its detractors. But... what if the saint had written another manuscript in parallel, a more intimate journal, not intended to please or defend her before anyone, but to evoke her past life and try to explain herself as a human being? That is what Cristina Morales imagines, giving voice to a Teresa, if not free from ties and commitments, aware of them and fighting against them. A Teresa who looks for herself in her memories and self-explores in her writing: she evokes her childhood with games of Romans and martyrs, her mother's sufferings and humiliations in her multiple pregnancies, her life between discipline and rebellion, her destiny as a woman in a society designed by and for men...