by Ana María Matute, Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, Miguel Ángel de Rus, Antonio López del Moral, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Charles Davillier, Leopoldo Alas Clarín · IRREVERENTES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493063153
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In this book, titled 'On the Train', Ana María Matute opens the work with her story 'From Nowhere', winner of the Antonio Machado Award. The story follows children traveling between Madrid and Barcelona, marked by fear and despair in times of war. Other authors such as Miguel Ángel de Rus, with 'Parallel Lives', explore the lack of communication in a marriage on a train journey. Antonio López del Moral presents 'The Disembodied Woman', a story about a coffin and its strange journey, while Fernando Vizcaíno Casas reflects on freedom in 'Christmas Eve at the Siding'.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
