by Ramón J. Sender · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423342396
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«Réquiem por un campesino español» is the novel by Ramón J. Sender, published by Austral in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The priest Mosén Millán waits in an Aragonese village to officiate the funeral of a young peasant he loved like a son. As the faithful arrive, his memory reconstructs the boy's life during the Civil War and the episode in which his attempt to protect him ended up handing him over to those who executed him. It is a sober tale about conscience, guilt and the memory of failure.
Originally published as Mosén Millán in 1953, it is part of Austral's Contemporánea collection (number 1).
Aimed at high school students (it was an EBAU reading in Cantabria) and readers of 20th-century Spanish narrative.
Ramón José Sender Garcés was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist. Several of his works were translated into English by the distinguished zoologist, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, including Seven Red Sundays , Mr Witt Among the Rebels and The War in Spain (Contraataque). He published articles in the Valencia-based Orto magazine between 1932 and 1934. During the Spanish Civil War Sender was among the contributors of El Mono Azul, a Republican literary magazine.
