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2023-09-01 04:33:02
“El Catire is strong”, we say in Venezuela when it is very sunny. Catire is the way we call the blondes there. Hence the comparison with the solar yellow mane. ‘La Catira’ (1955) was also the title of the novel that Camilo José Cela wrote at the request of the Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship, as a way of relaunching the link between Venezuela and the ‘Motherland’. A handshake between warlords, basically. With the money they paid her, Cela bought his house in Palma de Mallorca, where he must have enjoyed incredible sunsets. This story, in any case, was already very well studied by Gustavo Guerrero in the book that he dedicated to him… See More
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