by Concha Alós · Planeta. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432000133
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Las hogueras is a novel by the Spanish author Concha Alós, winner of the Planeta Prize in 1964. The story raises, through a counterpoint technique and a style that combines crude realism with deep poetry, the essential problem of the human being: the search for happiness. The novel presents Sibila, a sensual Parisian ex-model, daughter of a lavish and depraved world, who seeks happiness through love. Her husband, Archibald, a wealthy intellectual, tries to find God from an anguished skepticism. Daniel el Monegro, a purely instinctive being with a bloody past, becomes Sibila's lover and channels all his ambition towards wealth. Finally, Asunción Molino, the schoolteacher, lives immersed in the bitterness of her vocation and her failed life. These characters offer a broad vision of contemporary society, with its desperate struggle for existence under the empty phraseology of brotherhood. A desolate beach in Mallorca, battered by the waves and winds, serves as the setting where these beings debate their desires for life, which are consumed uselessly like the sterile summer bonfires.
