by Isaac Rosa · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788432210433
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Amidst the university turmoil of the sixties, an old professor is involved in a confusing incident that leads to his expatriation. The reconstruction of his adventures brings to light the unexplained disappearance of a student. So far, it might seem like a mere portrait of Franco's repression. However, the testimonies of repressed and repressors, victims and beneficiaries of the regime, in constant dialogue with the reader - and with the author himself - place the controversy over memory in an infrequent place: memory is not the answer here, but the only valid question. El vano ayer is far from being another novel about our recent past. It is an original approach to Francoism projected on its still current consequences and based on a formal bet contrary to the frequent literary acceptance of preconceived schemes. Surprising and moving, it is a call for attention on the traps of a sentimental and decorative memory that leads to forms close to nostalgia and cancels both responsibility and suffering. Through the formula of the novel in progress, and using an irony that enhances the most tragic aspects of the narration, Isaac Rosa exposes the foundations, the mechanisms of the novel, so that the reader is aware of certain mirages - not innocent - and decide whether to fall into them.
Isaac Rosa Camacho is a Spanish writer. He is best known for his novel El vano ayer which won the Premio Rómulo Gallegos in 2005. Rosa is the third Spanish writer to receive this award. Other noted works include El país del miedo and La habitación oscura.
