by Francisco Umbral · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408018643
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«Las señoritas de Aviñón» is the novel by Francisco Umbral published in 1996 by Planeta in paperback (236 pages, in Spanish).
Francesillo, Francisco Umbral's alter ego, evokes in his memoirs the Madrid before the Civil War: the family home on Gran Vía, the circle of artists and intellectuals who frequented it, and the discovery that his aunts served as models for Picasso's «Las señoritas de Aviñón». Fiction and reality blend in the portrait of an era.
The work belongs to the «Francesillo» series; historical figures such as Unamuno, Alfonso XIII, Rubén Darío, and Valle-Inclán appear in the plot.
For those interested in contemporary Spanish literature and the intellectual milieu of Madrid before the Civil War.
Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez, better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.
