Extremadura spring, by Julio Llamazares

Extremadura spring
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There are writers for whom what happens in the world has a different cadence, a very different wavelength from whose frequency complementary impressions and perceptions end up reaching us. Julio Llamazares It is from that court of narrators who tangentially run through a lyrical realism as soon as they splash us from the fable.

These are strange days and taking refuge in the literature of authors like Llamazares can at least serve to bring us closer to what was already near to rethink that proximity from always enriching and hopeful sources.

In March 2020, days before all of Spain was confined, the author settled with his family in a house located in the Sierra de los Lagares, near Trujillo, in Extremadura. There they were, as the characters of the Decameron, held for three months in a place that gave them the most beautiful spring they ever lived.

During that time, nature, preserved from human intervention, was filled with light, bright colors and wild animals, as the tragedy of the pandemic raged relentlessly. And it is that life, despite everything, manages to break through the cracks of reality, however narrow they may be.

In this book two languages ​​intertwine to narrate a spring as unexpected as it is cruel and beautiful: that of the suggestive prose of Julio Llamazares and that of the evocative watercolors of Konrad Laudenbacher, friend and neighbor of the author. Once again, as always, art and literature appear to offer comfort and a spell that tries to stop the pain of the world. Spring regained.

Extremadura spring
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