Zenobia Camprubí

Although she is known for being the wife of Juan Ramón Jiménez, poet and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (1887-1956) was one of the most interesting personalities of the first half of the 20th century. Modern, bright and restless woman, fighter, independent, socially committed to the equality of women and the needs of children, hers was a full life involved on countless fronts: writer and translator, visionary businesswoman and feminist activist, university professor and pedagogue devoted to childhood. All these tasks, which she carried out both in Spain and, after her exile in 1936, in the United States and Puerto Rico, she combined with the organization of Juan Ramón's archives and the writing of her correspondence. Fleeing the conventions of the biographical genre, in which historical and social data often prevent a deep approach to the person remembered, this book shows the intimate personality of Zenobia Camprubí through a set of texts often omitted in traditional biographies : diaries, notes, reflections, correspondence. The result is a surprising, exciting and moving biography. In it, Zenobia's voice resounds without intermediaries to convey her wishes, her concerns, which were many, her pain, which represents that of many women of those years, and, above all, the incredible energy and limitless love with which she undertook all facets of his life and each and every project he embarked on. Love and energy that earned him the nickname "the living flame" by Juan Ramón Jiménez.