Filek, by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón

Filek, by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
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There are characters that appear in history as authentic rarities towards a singular protagonism. Charlatans who aim to be transcendental elements until they happen on their own merit to become temporary jokes and jokes that disappear after a short time.

And yet, as the years go by, the anecdotal may return with a very different consideration, that of extraordinary characters with a comic and absurd point that is transgressive, anachronistic, sympathetic and even much more transcendental than what the own could have expected. protagonists.

Only records of this type of characters remain in newspaper archives where researchers, onlookers or writers like Ignacio Martínez de Pisón end up recovering them for the cause of the most grotesque intrahistory.

After his last novel Natural law, Martínez de Pisón presents us with a very curious book. Thanks to Albert von Filek, Franco was about to consider that his autarky could be seen at levels of world power comparable to the old Spanish Empire.

This Austrian, who at heart seems more born of the Spanish picaresque, argued that he was capable of producing a synthetic fuel with running water and other plant components. And of course, the regime saw a vein in him. The exotic nature of his name, his assumed status as a renowned scientist, and his imposed security ended up convincing Franco and his family.

It was to such an extent that the news of indigenous fuel production was announced with great fanfare. The chemist Filek had wanted to favor Spain against many other tempting offers from oil manufacturers around the world.

The most interesting thing about the matter would undoubtedly be Filek's very personal perspective… how far was he going to go? How was he going to get the money from Franco and escape with his pufo exploding in the dictator's hands?

Undoubtedly a great rogue in our history, one more grotesque who uncovered Franco's propaganda miseries in the same year in which he had just seized power, 1939. With the rest of Europe already engulfed in World War II and thanks to the new discovery chemist, Franco could come to think that the conquest of the world was just around the corner.

A story meticulously presented by Martínez de Pisón, a tasty intrahistory about survival, ingenuity and occurrence all materialized in Albert Von Filek.

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