Mrs. Stendhal, by Rafael Nadal

Mrs. Stendhal
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The true survivors of the wars appear among the punished people who assume their victims as best they can. A child who is taken from his mother on the last day of the Civil War finds his only shelter in Mrs. Stendhal's arms in which to continue being a child loved by a mother figure.

The postwar period is that empty space, that temporary nothingness in which everything has disappeared and lives try to find new routines in the midst of the marked need and the pressing deficiencies. Lluc is that child who only through his innocence can understand a chaotic world like normality, which overcomes absences through presences to which he clings to continue feeling stolen love.

In other recent works about the Spanish Civil War we know perspectives of combatants or family sagas, or secrets of state hidden in the military action. But only in this book Mrs. Stendhal we will recover the most important perspective, that of childlike innocence in the face of the reality of weapons.

Because after the war, the worst may be yet to come. The victors tend to be even more cruel when they know themselves superior. The desire to exterminate an enemy that no longer exists continues to spread over anyone who could have been on the other side.

Awakened the cruelty of war, its embers are not easy to extinguish with the last shot. Accustomed to exalting hatred, the victors seek continual revenge.

The postwar period in a civil conflict is just that, an execution of the vanquished, an end without an armistice. No matter how innocent you are, you can always be the new victim.

But in this work we also find hope. Lluc hopes that he can be a child and holds on to promises of a better future. Through his eyes and his primary emotions we are scrutinizing a reality whose violent interiorities escape the understanding of early childhood, and also the understanding of any reader.

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