by David Castillo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429778243
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El tango de Dien Bien Phu is a choral novel that explores the biographies of anonymous characters from the departure of the libertarian columns across the border in 1939 to the French defeat in Vietnam in 1954. Through the investigations of Dani Cajal, the story reconstructs direct testimonies, memoirs, and documents from military archives, showing the vicissitudes of a generation that suffered the Civil War, the French concentration camps, World War II, and the post-war conflicts. The search for the lyrics of a Gardel tango serves to revisit forgotten scenarios and moments of some of the bloodiest episodes of the 20th century, offering a portrait of the combatants without aspiration of glory and without a desire for revenge.
David Castillo i Buïls is a Spanish poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and underground publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them "Game over", which won the Carles Riba Poetry Prize. Then he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that were well accepted both by critics and the general public. El cel de l'infern was awarded the Crexells Prize for the best Catalan novel of the year in 1999. No miris enrere won the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. Castillo has received Atlàntida awards for journalism three times, and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles. He is a founder of Poetry Week in Barcelona, and has been a director of it since 1997.
