Alberto Méndez

Alberto Méndez Borra

Este libro es el regreso a las historias reales de la posguerra que contaron en voz baja narradores que no quera̕n contar cuentos sino hablar de sus amigos, de sus familiares desaparecidos, de ausencias irreparables. Son historias de los tiempos del silencio, cuando daba miedo que alguien supiera que saba̕s. Cuatro historias, sutilmente engarzadas entre s,̕ contadas desde el mismo lenguaje pero con los estilos propios de narradores distintos que van perfilando la verdadera protagonista de esta narracin̤: la derrota. Un capitǹ del ejřcito de Franco que, el mismo da̕ de la Victoria, renuncia a ganar la guerra; un niǫ poeta que huye asustado con su compaęra nią embarazada y vive una historia vertiginosa de madurez y muerte en el breve plazo de unos meses; un preso en la cr̀cel de Porlier que se niega a vivir en la impostura para que el verdugo pueda ser calificado de verdugo; por l︢timo, un dic̀ono rijoso que enmascara su lascivia tras el fascismo apostl̤ico que reclama la sangre purificadora del vencido

Los girasoles ciegos

The novel deals with the consequences of the Spanish Civil War. in order for Spain to exhume its ghosts and move forward, it must remember its past. This is what this novel, comprising of four stories set during the final throes of the civil war, aims to do.

Ta typhla ēliotropia

Now a major film, 'Blind Sunflowers' contains four connected stories, narrated in the same spirit but with the individual styles of the different voices, which deal with the consequences of the Spanish Civil War.

Blind Sunflowers

"A captain in Franco's army renounces winning the war - on the very day of the victory; a young poet flees with his pregnant girlfriend and is forced to grow up quickly, only to die within a few months; a prisoner in Porlier's jail refuses to live a lie so that his executioner can be held accountable; and a lustful deacon hides his desires behind the apostolic fascism that clamours for the purifying blood of the defeated." "Four subtly connected tales, narrated in the same spirit but with the individual styles of the different voices; these are stories from silent times, when people feared that others might discover what they knew. The line between the victorious and the defeated is blurred - whatever one's affiliation, nobody survives unscathed."--BOOK JACKET.

Alberto Méndez Borra

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