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UNA NOVELA TOTAL SOBRE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAOLA EN CLAVE DE REALISMO MGICO

He aqu la historia de la descomposicin total de una familia, de la deshumanizacin de un pueblo, de la desintegracin de un territorio y de una pennsula de casas vacas.

La historia de un soldado que se raja la piel para dejar salir la ceniza acumulada, de un poeta que cose la sombra de una nia tras un bombardeo, y de un maestro que ensea a sus alumnos a hacerse los muertos; de un general que duerme junto a la mano cortada de una santa, de un nio ciego que recupera la vista durante un apagn, y de una campesina que pinta de negro todos los rboles de su huerto; de un fotgrafo extranjero que pisa una mina cerca de Brunete y no levanta el pie en cuarenta aos, de un gernikarra que conduce hasta el centro de Pars una camioneta con los restos humeantes de un ataque areo, y de un perro herido cuya sangre teir la ltima franja de una bandera abandonada en Badajoz.

He aqu pues la historia total de la Guerra Civil espaola y de una Iberia agonizante donde lo fantstico apuntala la crudeza de lo real; donde los annimos miembros de un extenso clan de olivareros de Jndula cruzan sus destinos con los de Alberti, Lorca y Unamuno; Rodoreda, Zambrano y Kent; Hemingway, Orwell y Bernanos; Picasso y Mallo; Azaa y Fox; donde lo pico y lo costumbrista se entrelazan para tejer un portentoso tapiz, potico y grotesco, bello y delirante.

Con una prosa imprevista, tan original como desacomplejada, David Ucls es un autntico soplo de aire fresco en las letras espaolas. – Pablo Martn Snchez

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A NOVEL ABOUT THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WRITTEN IN THE KEY OF MAGICAL REALISM

This is the story of the total breakdown of a family, the dehumanization of a people, the disintegration of a territory, and a peninsula of empty houses.

The story of a soldier who cuts his skin to let out the accumulated ash, of a poet who sews the shadow of a girl after a bombing, and of a teacher who teaches his students to play dead; of a general who sleeps next to the severed hand of a saint, of a blind boy who regains his sight during a blackout, and of a peasant woman who paints all the trees in her orchard black; of a foreign photographer who steps on a mine near Brunete and does not lift his foot for forty years, of a man from Gernika who drives a truck with the smoldering remains of an air raid to the center of Paris, and of a wounded dog whose blood will stain the last strip of a flag abandoned in Badajoz.

Here, then, is the complete history of the Spanish Civil War and of a dying Iberia where the fantastic underpins the harshness of reality; where the anonymous members of a large clan of olive growers from Jndula cross paths with Alberti, Lorca, and Unamuno; Rodoreda, Zambrano, and Kent; Hemingway, Orwell, and Bernanos; Picasso and Mallo; Azaa and Fox; where the epic and the traditional intertwine to weave a portentous tapestry, poetic and grotesque, beautiful and delirious.

“With his unexpected prose, as original as it is uninhibited, David Ucls is a real breath of fresh air in Spanish literature.” – Pablo Martn Snchez