The presentation of director, screenwriter, and now writer Benito Rabal's debut novel, "Yesterday, Tomorrow," will take place on Wednesday, June 14th at 8:00 p.m. at the Atalaya Club. José Daniel Espejo, writer and bookseller, will accompany the author at the event.
Last February, Benito Rabal Balaguer released his debut novel, "Yesterday, Tomorrow," published by Algaida. The work tells a story of friendship and describes the situation of a group of middle-class young people in Madrid and Spain after May 1968, up until approximately the first years of the Transition. This society was experiencing the final period of a dictatorship and repression against opponents fighting for freedom. The protagonist, in this work, reveals his dreams and their loss upon reaching adulthood.
Benito, son of actors Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer, offers a novel with a distinctly autobiographical tone, in which the narrator discovers his interest in the world of cinema, which is furthered by his stay in Rome, which opens the doors to that field for him. Through this lens, the novel recovers the Italy of the years following May 1968, transformed into a place of refuge and marked by constant social tension.
The following day, Thursday the 15th at 7:30 p.m., "God's Bastard Brother" (1986) will be screened, a film adaptation of José Luis Coll's autobiographical novel, directed by Benito Rabal ('El van'). A view, from Cuenca, of the Spanish Civil War as experienced by a child from the rearguard, letters from the front, the wounded, budding loves, and the grotesque ceremony of confusion. The child in question is Liberto Rabal, Coll's alter ego, who at that time, fatherless and with his mother in exile, lived with his grandparents and aunts and uncles in the city of hanging houses.
From his child's perspective, he presents his problems and worries: getting the girl he likes, fighting with other boys, helping the village priest when he needs it, and other everyday activities that are inevitably influenced by the horrors of war.
All events are free admission until capacity is reached.
Source: Atalaya Cieza Club.
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