Un armario lleno de sombra
Biographies, Famille et relations familiales
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
"After the death of his mother, Antonio Gamoneda decided to open the closet whose contents remained shrouded in shadow and could not be seen by anyone but her: 'I stuck my head in the darkness of the closet and then… something happened that enveloped me in its physical reality: the smell of my mother. Alive.' The review of the contents of this closet provokes a sequence of memories that, over the pages, become narrative and story. The result is this book, a childhood memoir from the moment the Spanish Civil War broke out until the day before his fourteenth birthday. His father, a journalist and author of a single book of poems, |Another Higher Life|, died the year after Antonio Gamoneda was born. In 1934, his mother decided to move with her son from Oviedo to León and there they lived through the Spanish war and post-war period, with the extreme precariousness of a family without resources. Of the humiliations imposed by poverty, of their passage through the school of the Augustinian friars (not innocent of abuses and perversions), of the bloody repression during the civil war and the postwar period very present in León, the reader will find the details in the pages of this book, the moving account of a childhood lived in the darkest years of Spain's recent history." -- Goodreads