The Curse of the Big House, by Juan Ramón Lucas

The Curse of the Big House, by Juan Ramón Lucas
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hen a journalist like Juan Ramon Lucas, with a long career and also awarded for his performance in different radio and television media, he launches himself into the literary world, a transition towards the narrative is always expected, marked by that vocation of communication, transmission of intra-stories, of interest in the chronicle. Something like this happens with others like the Argentine Jose Pablo Feinmann or even with the former minister Maximum Huerta, among many others.

So the arrival of this debut feature by Juan Ramón Lucas drinks from that intention to open ourselves to particular events, to lives that make up a story about the social and political evolution, but also about the interiorities of life, that aspect that journalism does not it can reach to present to the spectators, listeners or readers of the press.

The deepening of a character on horseback between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, such as Miguel Zapata Sáez abounds in that journalistic interest that the narrative allows to develop with evocations of the myth, of the character that transcends but also of detail, of the humanity in essence that distills ambitions and passions, misunderstandings and confrontations.

Tío Lobo, as Miguel Zapata became known for confronting the wolves that besieged the cattle that he himself guarded, was that, a rancher who knew how to recycle at a time when this process was only available to the privileged by cradle or one of the most daring among all the others.

From rancher to liquor seller and from there, with his first savings, he was gaining his space in the mining business, thriving in the Murcia region at the end of the XNUMXth century. A visionary like few others, Miguel Zapata was adapting the mining of the area to the greatest advances in Europe, managing to establish an empire in extraction but also in the distribution and supply of all kinds of mining elements.

But beyond the known, official facts, as I say Juan Ramón Lucas delves into the character, in Tío Lobo, as well as in the circumstances of an exploited mining community, where women became the object of abuse with too much assiduity, where contamination was spreading out of control.

The female voice of María Adra is linking the details of a fictionalized life with two very different faces and a context of misery and even violence. The resignations and sleeplessness of Tio Lobo as well as his passions and tragedies (those announced by the title on the curse of the big house). An intense life in all aspects that ends up sprinkling the history of an entire country with exciting and tragic chronicles.

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