by Francisco Umbral · Verguera, 1980, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470179006
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«Los helechos arborescentes» is the novel by Francisco Umbral, published by Argos Vergara in 1980 in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
Francesillo, a timeless child from tenebrist paintings, walks toward a hallucinatory encounter with Franco; along the way, the picaresque of the Golden Age and the esperpento of Goya and Valle-Inclán parade past. Francisco Umbral traces an irrational history of Spain, an expressionist mural of its civil wars where anachronism is the poetic key.
This is the first edition, in the collection «Las cuatro estaciones» (summer 1980), published by Argos Vergara in Barcelona. It belongs to the «Francesillo» series.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in an imaginative recreation of the Civil War, Francoism, and historical picaresque.
Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez, better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.
