THE BLIND SUNFLOWERS IN READING CLUB

The first appointment 2018 Reading Club Library Santa Eulària takes place on Tuesday, 9 from January, a las 20:30 hours with the discussion of the book Alberto Mendez, Blind Sunflowers. National Literature Prize 2005, Critics Award 2005 and Setenil Award 2004.

This book is a return to the real stories of the postwar period that were told in whispers by narrators who did not want to tell stories but to talk about their friends., of their missing relatives, of irreparable absences. They are stories of the times of silence, when it was scary that someone knew you knew. four stories, subtly linked together, told from the same language but with the styles of different narrators that are outlining the true protagonist of this narration: the defeat.

A captain in Franco's army, the same day of victory, give up winning the war; a child poet who runs away frightened with his pregnant girl partner and lives a dizzying story of maturity and death in the short space of a few months; an inmate in Porlier jail who refuses to live in imposture so that the executioner can be branded as an executioner; By last, a rowdy deacon who masks his lasciviousness behind apostolic fascism that claims the purifying blood of the vanquished.

Everything in this book is true., but none of what is said is true, because certainty needs acquiescence and acquiescence needs statistics. There were so many horrors, Analysts of all times have set out to define the human being based on its different facets, all the fears, all the sufferings, all the dramas, they only have one thing in common: the dead. But the deaths of our post-war are already resolved in official figures, Though it's about time we start remembering that we know.

This is Alberto Méndez's first reckoning with his memory and he does it ambushed in a flagrant attempt to do it from literature.

Alberto Mendez (1941-2004) he was born in Madrid, where he spent his childhood. He studied high school in Rome (Italy) and graduated in Philosophy and Letters from the Complutense University of Madrid. Throughout his life he was linked to publishing, first as founder of the Ciencia Nueva publishing house and collaborator with Montena and the distributor Les Punxes, among other activities. con Blind Sunflowers, his first and only book, won the 1st Setenil Prize for the best short story book of the year, and posthumously, en 2005, the Critics Award and the National Narrative Award, thus becoming consecrated as a contemporary classic.

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