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    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      2019

      El lugar de la espera

      by Sònia Hernández

      «Born around the same time as we were, democracy and the Constitution told us that we all had the right to do whatever we liked. The whole society, conniving to protect our wishes and desires, was in agreement. We were going to be what we wanted to be, and they were constantly asking us what we wanted to be when we were grownup». In this choral novel, narrated in first-person plural, the characters share something more than the voice that speaks in all their names: they live in a single symbolic space, that of a generation not yet lost but gone astray because of waiting for a sign that would indicate the decisive moment to do the job or make the decision that would give sense to their lives. Maturity has brought to these accidental emulators of Beckett’s burlesque characters an awareness that nobody is going to give them this sign, that nobody expects anything of them. If they have some opportunity to give purpose to their lives, perhaps it is to live them for themselves alone, in other words, simply act without an audience.

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

      Helena o el mar del verano

      by Julián Ayesta

      When it originally came out in 1952, Helena o el mar del verano was considered by the many enthusiastic readers to be one of the best works of postwar Spanish fiction. The suggestive power and lyricism of Ayesta’s writing continues to endure.

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      2000

      Helena o el mar del verano

      by Julián Ayesta

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      2015

      La razón del mal

      by Rafael Argullol

      A strange phenomenon occurs in a prosperous cosmopolitan western city. Apparently just an annoying setback at first, it very quickly turns into a much more insidious threat, capable of overturning the citizens’ most intimate convictions. With this chronicle of a phenomenon which affects every strata of society, Argullol re-creates the process of its disintegration, from denunciation, fear and suspicion through to pillage, magic and superstition. In the midst of chaos, an amorous relationship is serenely constructed, immersed in the time required to restore a mythological painting in which the artist dares to invite the viewer to dream of another destiny for Orpheus and Eurydice. Argullol reminds the reader of the all-important value of lucidity and memory. Looking back, as Orpheus did, after he had rescued his beloved from Hades, does not necessarily lead to condemnation.

    • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
      2015

      La resistencia íntima

      by Josep Maria Esquirol

      La resistencia íntima is a percipient, profound essay on the human condition. Esquirol reveals how proper care of oneself gives light and warmth to those around us, protecting them and showing the way ahead. «We recognise that intimate resistance is what we call an experience belonging to the region of proximity; a region that is not visited in a day, but where one tends to stay. Yet today it is hard to remain there. Proximity is not measured in metres or centimetres. Its opposite is not distance but, rather, the ubiquitous monochrome of a world in thrall to technology. We have seen how everyday matters, and what is communicated by a home are extremely important modes of the experience of proximity».

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