Tragic Trilogy of Spain
A regular contributor to VIAJAR and internationally recognized as the best writer of travel books in Spanish, Javier Reverte started this trilogy a decade ago because he felt that having experienced, as a child, the direct effects of the civil war, he had a personal, literary debt to the last conflict fought over ideas, as Hemingway wrote.
The three novels are based on real characters and events, such as General Juan Modesto - the Achilles of the Iliad - who also represented, in terms of epic tragedy, the civil war, Bishop Leopoldo Eijo Garay, bullfighter José García Carranza "El Algabeño," or John Cornford, a student from the University of Cambridge. "These are by no means tales of 'good' and 'bad' - explained Javier Reverte during the presentation of this trilogy. - They are accounts of real events narrated from the perspective of imagination, because as Fernando Pessoa said 'fiction is necessary to make life more real.' And although many books have been published about the Spanish Civil War - concluded Reverte - I believe that there is a lack of literary works about that great tragedy, terrible for all Spaniards."
"Tragic Trilogy of Spain" is being presented in bookstores just as we approach the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War.