"Un mundo dentro del mundo, la célebre autobiografía de Stephen Spender, contiene vívidos retratos de Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Auden o Cristopher Isherwood, y una fascinante descripción de la Europa de los años veinte y treinta: el frío brillo de la vida universitaria inglesa, el desenfreno erótico y cultural de la Alemania de entreguerras, y un relato distanciado y personalísimo de la participación del autor en la guerra civil española."

A lyrical and fascinating memoir, this book was written when the author was still in his forties. Included here is an introduction for this new 1994 edition. I enjoyed the references to both Auden and Isherwood, two of my favorite authors, while Spender's prose style complements his own poetry. ( )

Spender writes, "Auden told me now that he had changed his mind about my work. I should not write poetry, but autobiographical prose narrative." What a great book and worth a re-read. ( )

I enjoyed this book very much as I found him very interesting, sensitive and extremely honest considering the time in which it was written. The 50's were stifling to anyone that wasn't white bread and butter. His life crossed paths with many fascinating people such as W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf. The profound long term affect of his difficult childhood is very well done. ( )