Winds of the Night

Resumen del libro

"Perhaps the worst thing about war is the peace that follows . . ."Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales' acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory.It describes the shell-shocked wasteland that was post-war Catalonia through the eyes of Cruells, a Republican chaplain who survives the war, and completes his theological studies only to lose his faith in a world where it seems all hope has been extinguished.As he struggles to function as a rural priest, his steps are dogged by a ghostly figures from his past, such as Lamoneda, a fascist agent provocateur who now hobnobs with Himmler and misses few opportunities to turn the febrile post-war atmosphere to his financial advantage.

Against his wishes, Creulls is drawn into obsessive dialogues about the war in which only lunacy prevails, for Lamoneda seems to hold the key to the whereabouts of an old friend - the mercurial Juli Soleras, whose charisma, for all his betrayals, still holds Cruells in thrall.An essential coda to the modern classic that is Uncertain Glory, Winds of the Night is a Beckettian vision of the traumas of combatants and country hidden beneath the rhetoric of the victors.Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush

Biografía del autor

Se ocupó de literatura desde diversas perspectivas: profesor de la universidad, crítico literario, consejero editorial, traductor (Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Hopkins), ensayista (Balzac y la Comedia humana, Leer a Saint-Simon, Victorianos y modernos), etc. Otros de sus títulos son El mágico prodigioso, semblanza de Juan Perucho, La casa de los santos, Cuaderno de escritura y Tarea de escribir. Publicó también ocho volúmenes de poesía, el último de ellos Retrato de París (1999), y las novelas La sombra del tiempo, Viaje a España, El lugar del aire, Es otoño en Crimea, La noche más lejana, Jardín inglés y Los secretos de San Gervasio.