" This is war, child not forget " says a mother to her son with all the seriousness that these words imply, having witnessed both a fierce nationalist bombing on a Madrid suburb, one of the ten stories that make up the book " Capital of glory" ( Alfaguara, 2003) 1 , chronicles the last moments of Madrid Republican who just read these days.
War Child, born in 1929, the author, Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, relive these stories through their childhood memories and terrible scene unfolds on a capital at war, besieged and bombarded by the enemy, a web of stories whose main characters, brave or cowardly men and women who could be real and whose common link the need to survive in a closed and hostile.
Reading this prose, concise and brilliant, I wonder if a civil war that caused so many horrors - 600,000 casualties, including those killed in combat, victims of repression on both sides, due to disease and malnutrition, the exiles-no could have been avoided. Once, during a conversation, I asked Julia Santos on who, before 1936, wanted the war, and the said teacher told me that only 10% of the population, a percentage that still seems excessive to me civil war of 1936 -39 is a shameful episode de nuestra reciente historia del que todos los españoles nos debiéramos avergonzar colectivamente, para que sucesos tan horibles no vuelvan a ocurrir nunca jamás en nuestro país. Pienso que la guerra civil no fue en absoluto inevitable, por muchos y muy graves que fueran los conflictos internos- políticos, sociales, económicos, religiosos, territoriales- acumulados durante el primer tercio del siglo XX y agudizados (o puestos de relieve) durante los breves años republicanos. Coinciden los estudiosos de la guerra civil en que la crisis española de los 30 no fue más grave que la de Alemania, Austria o Italia después de la Gran Guerra y que durante la II República la sociedad española siguió funcionando, más or less normally, until the fateful date of July 18.
remember seeing long ago, an old movie, "Arc de Triomphe , shot in 1948 on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, in which his protagonist, Dr. Ravic (I read his name Internet, my memory does not go that far), a Nazi refugee in Paris, played by Charles Boyer, is surprised because the hotel that hosted comes a vociferous group of foreigners causing scandal. Who these people, asks the hotel manager. "They are English Franco who are celebrating the victory," he responds. "That stupid! and are happy to have killed their own countrymen, "he says referring doctor sad.
Certainly, nothing is more cruel, more stupid, most pointless and awful that a civil war between brothers that produces moral damage to society so difficult to overcome than even 70 years after the war ended, we still mulling over historical memory as some to definitely overcome the traumas of war or to reopen healed wounds for others.
This experience of the historic event beyond the chronological, virtually disappeared from the war generation, perhaps, think it is attributable to the particular civil violence generated contending sides during the war, long after the victors during the long war, during which there was a cruel and systematic repression whose sordid details have known with precision only in recent years.
Understanding the past to not repeat anymore. This could be a good motto for all the English and feeling good is what gives me reading the stories Zuniga, of which my favorite, I like them all, is entitled " ruins, travel, Taro Guerda "in which refers, by the fiction of an indirect search of the character, this photographer Guerda Taro, who died tragically hit by a Russian-made tank on July 25, 1937 in Brunswick during the confusion following the withdrawal of the Republican front. By the way, and it was not known I think, when Zuniga wrote his story, which is known to the name-and that 'little or nothing matter-of tanker that killed involuntarily to the "little blonde" as well called the companion who was sentimental and colleague of Robert Capa, whose photographic work, hers has been exposed recently in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bat the National Museum of Catalan Art, and many fans would like to view historic photography in Madrid.
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
November, 2009 (updated August 2010)
War Child, born in 1929, the author, Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, relive these stories through their childhood memories and terrible scene unfolds on a capital at war, besieged and bombarded by the enemy, a web of stories whose main characters, brave or cowardly men and women who could be real and whose common link the need to survive in a closed and hostile.
Reading this prose, concise and brilliant, I wonder if a civil war that caused so many horrors - 600,000 casualties, including those killed in combat, victims of repression on both sides, due to disease and malnutrition, the exiles-no could have been avoided. Once, during a conversation, I asked Julia Santos on who, before 1936, wanted the war, and the said teacher told me that only 10% of the population, a percentage that still seems excessive to me civil war of 1936 -39 is a shameful episode de nuestra reciente historia del que todos los españoles nos debiéramos avergonzar colectivamente, para que sucesos tan horibles no vuelvan a ocurrir nunca jamás en nuestro país. Pienso que la guerra civil no fue en absoluto inevitable, por muchos y muy graves que fueran los conflictos internos- políticos, sociales, económicos, religiosos, territoriales- acumulados durante el primer tercio del siglo XX y agudizados (o puestos de relieve) durante los breves años republicanos. Coinciden los estudiosos de la guerra civil en que la crisis española de los 30 no fue más grave que la de Alemania, Austria o Italia después de la Gran Guerra y que durante la II República la sociedad española siguió funcionando, más or less normally, until the fateful date of July 18.
remember seeing long ago, an old movie, "Arc de Triomphe , shot in 1948 on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, in which his protagonist, Dr. Ravic (I read his name Internet, my memory does not go that far), a Nazi refugee in Paris, played by Charles Boyer, is surprised because the hotel that hosted comes a vociferous group of foreigners causing scandal. Who these people, asks the hotel manager. "They are English Franco who are celebrating the victory," he responds. "That stupid! and are happy to have killed their own countrymen, "he says referring doctor sad.
Certainly, nothing is more cruel, more stupid, most pointless and awful that a civil war between brothers that produces moral damage to society so difficult to overcome than even 70 years after the war ended, we still mulling over historical memory as some to definitely overcome the traumas of war or to reopen healed wounds for others.
This experience of the historic event beyond the chronological, virtually disappeared from the war generation, perhaps, think it is attributable to the particular civil violence generated contending sides during the war, long after the victors during the long war, during which there was a cruel and systematic repression whose sordid details have known with precision only in recent years.
Understanding the past to not repeat anymore. This could be a good motto for all the English and feeling good is what gives me reading the stories Zuniga, of which my favorite, I like them all, is entitled " ruins, travel, Taro Guerda "in which refers, by the fiction of an indirect search of the character, this photographer Guerda Taro, who died tragically hit by a Russian-made tank on July 25, 1937 in Brunswick during the confusion following the withdrawal of the Republican front. By the way, and it was not known I think, when Zuniga wrote his story, which is known to the name-and that 'little or nothing matter-of tanker that killed involuntarily to the "little blonde" as well called the companion who was sentimental and colleague of Robert Capa, whose photographic work, hers has been exposed recently in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bat the National Museum of Catalan Art, and many fans would like to view historic photography in Madrid.
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
November, 2009 (updated August 2010)
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NOTES 1. For this work the author received the 2003 National Critics Award and in 2004 the prize awarded annually Salammbo coffee of the same name in Barceloana and Culture Club FNAC.
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