2023-05-28 14:13:36
What will you leave behind in life? journalist Aristóteles Moreno asked Antonio Gala in 2010, during an interview at the headquarters of the foundation that bears his name in Córdoba, and the most successful Spanish writer replied: “I I will leave what life does not let me say. But I will be until the end. Until my head works.” And so it has been. Now that the voice of the author from Brazatortas (Ciudad Real) who always considered himself from Cordoba has been silenced, if one looks back at his extensive legacy anyone can verify that he said a lot. And good. Here are some of his most notable works:
intimate enemy
With her first collection of poems, Gala received the Adonais Poetry Prize in 1959. This is how the poem that gave the book its name begins: “There are afternoons when everything / smells of burnt juniper / and promised land. / Afternoons when the sea is close and you hear / the voice that says: “Come”
The green fields of Eden
It was the first play written by Antonio Gala. Premiered in 1963 at the María Guerrero Theater in Madrid, it won the Calderón de la Barca National Theater Award and marked the beginning of a prolific and successful career for the writer as a playwright. The play tells the story of Juan, a homeless man who is looking for his grandfather’s pantheon and when he finds it, he stays to live in it, because he believes that it is the only place where he belongs. A party that he organizes one day with the characters he has met in his adventures ends in disorder and with Juan imprisoned.
rings for a lady
Premiered in 1973, with this play Gala won the Spectator and Critics Award. Set in Valencia, two years after the death of El Cid, the play tells of the love affair between Jimena and Minaya and how the latter, after asking King Alfonso VI for his consent to marry, ends up locked in the fortress, where she talks to her daughter about the wedding.
the crimson manuscript
With this historical novel that recounts the hypothetical memories of Boabdil, the last Nasrid sultan of Granada, he won the Premio Planeta in 1990 and began his literary career as a novelist, after having excelled above all in the theater. It was a best-seller that even today, more than thirty years later, is reissued in paperbacks and in commemorative editions.
The Turkish Passion
The novel he wrote in 1994 and which Vicente Aranda made into a film with the actress and singer Ana Belén as the protagonist told the story of a young woman from Huesca, dissatisfied with her daily life, who embarks on a trip to Turkey, where she will be captivated by Yaman, a guide local tourist, with whom he will begin a passionate relationship with dramatic consequences.
beyond the garden
With a script by Mario Camus, the following story by Antonio Gala about the Sevillian aristocrat Palmira Gadea who lives in the shelter of her well-kept garden was also made into a film with protagonists such as Concha Velasco and Fernando Guillén. The writer drew an excellent drama in which the artificial order of the Palmyra garden shakes and cracks due to a violent and ferocious reality.
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