Carrie Fisher passed away last Tuesday 27 in a very tragic last week of the year for music and cinema. His mother, the actress Debbie Reynolds, did not get over his loss and he left with her only a day later. The overwhelming and stormy personality Carrie Fisher was marked by planetary success that gave you your unforgettable princess Leia at a very young age. It also conditioned the relationship with his mother.

With problems with alcohol and drugs, his autobiographical books to appease or overcome ghosts and weaknesses possibly helped her. But those leaks have not prevented his unexpected disappearance. Surely your books won't be long to be published en español. We highlight this more literary facet in a small tribute to his memory.

Carrie Fisher had just presented his latest book, The princess diarist, in London. On the flight back to the United States on December 23 suffered a heart attack that I could not overcome. The world of cinema and the millions of fans of his most iconic character are still in shock.

Fisher was marked by the immortal princess of The Wars and, despite participating in many more films, he has always lived under its shadow. Added to that was a controversial and outspoken personality, who ended up suffering from bipolar disorder. One way to fight addictions and problems was writing.

Postcards from the edge (1987)

His first novel and his best known book for ourselves thanks to the Film adaptation It was done by director Mike Nichols in 1990. She signed the script. It tells the story of an actress, whose drug addiction rehabilitation process includes keeping a journal and sending postcards to her loved ones. It is starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. At the same time, it was shown how the most dehumanized face of the world of entertainment and cinema in particular also influences.

Delusions of Grandma (1993)

Fisher addressed the issue of maternity. Using his alter ego of a screenwriter named Cora, he tells of the immense terror that the protagonist develops at being able to die in childbirth. The novel is the letters from Cora to her unborn child in which she recounts her life.

Wishful Drinking (2008)

Adapting of his television show (He also agreed with his mother on that), Fisher revealed what it was like growing up having been born in one of the tallest cribs in Hollywood. And how he got older too soon in a modest movie called The Wars. With a tone as intimate as it is hilarious, Fisher takes a stark look at his own movie life.

This book was followed by another, Shockaholic, in 2011, where he talks about his Bipolar disorder. With a humor between candid and self-defense, he tells how the electroshock treatments They helped her overcome her depressions, but they left her mind full of holes. He wanted to write down those experiences in anticipation of being able to forget them.

The princess diarist (2016)

Published last November, this book is a collection of anecdotes that Carrie Fisher picked up in a personal diary about the filming of the first movie de The Wars. Written with the tone that only the youth of his 19 years gives, when Fisher discovered them he was hardly recognized in those pages full of notes, annotations and small poems. Overwhelmed by the emotion of being on that set, and still impossible to imagine what it would end up not only for her, but for all her colleagues.

The most revealing and confirmed after all these years of rumors: the brief affair she had with Harrison Ford, fourteen years older, already married and father of two children. But there is not much else for those looking for bait. Reviews highlight how the book depicts a 60 year old icon who looks back on his naive behavior at 19 and how it affected the rest of his life.

Other books

Some more titles are Surrender the Pink (1990) and The best awful (2004)

Anyway, we end up remembering Fisher in one of the many moments already immortal by the magic of cinema. Rest in peace, princess ...