Dear Francis, I break my silence, you know what I'm caught up to the end of the month "to celebrate the reissue of The Man Who Killed Durruti , the first novel of our brother Pedro de Paz. I say, and point
celebrate because we are talking about a novel that, by our absurd vicissitudes of publishing scene, has long been out of print, despite having been unanimously acclaimed by the critics, out of reach for many readers who eagerly wanted to access it.
I leave you with some lines drawn on the work of the author's website: Synopsis
Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1937. The commander Fernández Durán, a former member of the oversight body of the security police commander and current Republican Army during the English civil war, is required by his superiors to a curious mission: to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Buenaventura Durruti, leader anarchist who died in the front of the Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid in November 1936. To It moved to the capital in the company of his aide, Lieutenant Alcázar where, after a series of vicissitudes, its findings will lead to a surprising conclusion. Author's note
After eight months writing short stories as a training, it emerged, also initially intended as an account of small size. The aspects related to the English Civil War have long fascinated me and so particularly, the figure of Durruti. After two months in which I tried to gather as much documentation as possible about the subject, I sat down to write a short story in which, in fictionalized form, exposed all the theories about death the legendary anarchist, threaded through a story line of police who tried to character as a homage to follow the canons of the genre, in particular, the style developed by Conan Doyle to give life to his famous Sherlock. Once I set to work and because of the huge amount of documents collected and information gathered, just could not stop, thus leading to my first novel (short novel but finally after all). The text was written between the months of November 2002 and February 2003 and presented to the First International Short Story Competition "José Saramago" (2003), built in winning a unanimous decision of the jury. One of the most bizarre and amazing of my life. With my first novel, first introduced me to a literary contest and won. Something you mean, I suppose.
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