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 2 March 2022, it is part of the Contemporánea collection.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish narrative and the Civil War; also common reading in secondary education.
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.
