A Lonely Man - Spanish short stories

The year 1975, in which General Franco died, marked a dividing line between two phases. After that year, Spain entered a new phase characterized by freedom of opinion, a guarantee of democracy, and a multiplicity of political parties and groups, after a long phase of suppressing freedoms, silencing mouths, and monitoring the media and publishing. The doors of realism were opened again, and the short story began to emphasize topics stemming from the bitter reality whose effects had not yet been erased or removed. The continuity of this realistic line was helped by the emergence of a generation of writers who preserved its realistic character, if not in its themes, then at least in its form and composition. Among the methods that perhaps contributed to the creation of this new reality, in which the Spanish novel and the short story were marginalized, was the flourishing of the art of fiction in Latin America and its capture of the attention of critics, readers, and scholars. Thus, it became an international reputation that overshadowed others, and came to represent literature written in the Spanish language in a way that Does not accept disputes. This anthology of contemporary narratives by a book from Spain is one of hundreds of possible pages that open the way to contemplate these voices and others and give us a deep understanding of the art of the short story in the Iberian Peninsula, former Arab Andalusia, and modern European Mediterranean Spain.