by Ramón J. Sender · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423361014
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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).
In a small Aragonese village during the Civil War, Mosén Millán prepares to say a mass for the soul of a young peasant he loved like a son. While waiting for the attendees, he recalls the boy's life and his attempt to mediate to save him, weaving a sober and symbolic tale about guilt and conscience.
This Austral edition includes an introduction by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra. Published on March 2, 2022, it is part of the Contemporánea collection.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish narrative and the Civil War; also common reading in high school.
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.
