La Sonrisa de Franco

Med George Orwell og Virginia Wolf som forbilleder, og med ingredienser fra såvel journalistiske som litterære traditioner forsøger forfatteren at forholde sig til den spanske og vesteuropæiske afmatning

Based on the original manuscript, this book also contains the proper iconography of the literary work. It includes an introduction accompanied by a biography & a critical study of the work, the complete text, footnotes at the bottom of each page, glossary, illustrations of the original text, two bibliographies, & an index.

A heart cries from exile. Memories of the country left behind mix with and get mixed up with the realities of the country of refuge. The stories in this collection taken together narrate the education of the heart, a heart uprooted by civil war in Spain and given refuge in Mexico, launched on a new life, to stitch them together to form a coherent whole.

It tackles the history of Love as a cultural idea in the two decades that came after the Civil War as a substantial part of human comprehension of reality and as a way of organizing individual and social practices. This idea, this book suggests, played a crucial role on women subordination, through the configuration of their identity and subjectivity.