AN IMPORTANT SPANISH WRITER: JUAN ANTONIO DE ZUNZUNEGUI

 

These days, aired and fomented by the present Socialist-Cumunist Spanish Government, the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War is all the rage. The war ended 86 years ago and left the country in shambles, with one million dead, cities destroyed, and the countryside deserted. During the post-war period, with Europe fighting the Second World War, Spain had to endure the new dictatorship of General Franco. My father, Delfín Carbonell Marshall, spent almost 2 years in a concentration camp (he wrote about it, and it can be read in Sánchez Drago's La Retaguardia). These days, I repeat, socialists and communists are fanning the flames again, remembering a period before they were born, but averring they were eyewitnesses to the daily atrocities of the dictatorship. I lived through that period, but I advise those interested in what daily life was like under Franco's dictatorship to read the novels of that period, such as those of Juan Antonio de Zunzunegui (1901-1982). Some of his novels are: Esta oscura desvandada, La vida sigue, El supremo bien, La quiebra ...