Juegos de Guerra
- No. of pages: 248 págs.
- Binding: Softcover
- Publishing House: GALLAND BOOKS
The reality of war - Ortega y Gasset wrote - is nothing but rhetoric, torrents of rhetoric that flood the primary school, beat fiercely in newspaper columns, swirl in parliamentary speeches and roll in a cataract over the martial drum that drags the children through the streets of the cities. Rescued from the shadows that form the hackneyed historical memory, the children of these War Games stand called as witnesses to an unfinished trial, now to tell what they saw and were surprised by in those places, alleys and corners of human cruelty, contempt for life and partisan unreason. Victims, heroes and secondary actors - all in one - of an event called the Spanish Civil War, revive to show new generations the face of one side in the mirror of the other, with the same assumed perplexities of the environment to which the conflict led them.