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Filomeno, to my regret
Filomeno is a English gentleman of English origin. It also has Portuguese descent, and we, for that matter, more than English, Filomeno is Galician. In other words, what we have here is a stew of nationalities. Filomeno goes through life protected from all evil, in cotton, the old saying of my people. There has to work, because others have worked for him. In fact, Filomeno, if anything, is a spectator of life, never an actor and as spectator tells the history of Spain since the beginning of the century to the postwar period, the years of famine. Of course he does not go hungry, for it is a gentleman, and therefore, it is a gentleman, allowed some dissent, a dissent of farce rather because of farce is the parade of umbrella stands can not find where to bury the corpse of a heretic. Filomeno also meets girls, some are Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, others are spies or something, because if something happens Filomeno, that something is that they know almost nothing. The novel that portrays the life of Filomeno is a soap opera too long, well written, entertaining, sometimes boring others, but built with agile prose, sometimes in elaborate sins but in general it is digestive to the average reader. Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, of course, won the Metro with this work, the prize that only celebrities lead, for what they have to repay the hundred milloncejos takes wing the author of yore. Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a man who passed through English literature without leaving much trace. Little is heard about it, now that takes time on the sky of novelists. He was wearing a dress, is said to be a professor. And the narrative of Torrente Ballester have that little academic, is a prose of university students gathered in a cafe to fight to prove who knows more. As roosters in a pen. Among these cock of the Hispanic narrative, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester emerges as the winner by points. That's right: a short distance from the vanquished.
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