Luna de lobos

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Luna de lobos es una novela de resistencia, pero sobre todo es un retrato de la naturaleza humana, un texto cumbre en la trayectoria de Julio Llamazares, uno de los autores más relevantes de la narrativa española contemporánea.

Tres existencias clandestinas acechan desde el silencio del monte lo que un día fueron sus casas, sus mujeres y su vida. El miedo es la única compañía que no abandona a los fugitivos, un miedo que incita a compartir ese estado de tensión permanente que hace es­perar y temer que el sonido de la bala enemiga rompa por fin la angustia del silencio. Al tiempo que nos permite asistir a una pá­gina olvidada de nuestra historia, la epopeya de estos tres hom­bres demuestra que la condena a vivir como una alimaña no con­lleva necesariamente la pérdida de la grandeza humana.

Ramiro, Gildo y Ángel, tres soldados republicanos de León, hu­yen en plena noche de las represalias del frente victorioso que ha ocupado su tierra. Refugiados en el monte, al abrigo de la oscuri­dad de las minas abandonadas, de las cuevas o de la noche, ven pasar los meses mientras tratan de sobrevivir y de escapar al in­fierno de la clandestinidad. De esta manera se manifiesta un ins­tinto primario que puede llevar a un hombre acosado hacia la violencia.

Julio Llamazares was born in Vegamián, a small village in the region of León. At the age of twelve he left the mountain area, attended a boarding school in Madrid and then studied law. Today Llamazares works as a writer, journalist and scriptwriter.

After two poetry volumes which were published under the titles of 'La lentitud de los bueyes' (1979) and 'Memoria de la nieve' (1982), his successful debut as a novel writer came out in 1985 'Luna de lobos'.

Llamazares had his literary breakthrough with the novel 'La lluvia amarilla' in 1988. The novel is about Andrés, an old man who is the last inhabitant of a forsaken village in the Pyrenees. Andrés reminds the former vitality of this place and contemplates about forgetting, death, and loneliness. With the story of the dying village, Llamazares has depicted a concise development of Spanish society in a bribingly direct speech. Hundreds of villages have disappeared in the last decades because the inhabitants have moved to the cities. In the first three years after its publication, 'La lluvia amarilla' was already re-published 15 times.

In the autobiographical novel 'Escenas de cine mudo' (1994), the narrator returns to Olleros, the place of his childhood. After the death of his mother he finds a photo album with old black and white photos. With the help of the yellowed photos he goes back to his past and describes, in loosely connected scenes, his experiences from the view of a child, thus bestowing an insight into the social history of the region.

Llamazares holds a special place in Spanish contemporary literature. He belongs to the few authors who concern themselves with rural Spain, the remote areas and the decline of damned mountain villages. With his unassuming and convincingly told stories of everyday life, he plays a large part in the existence of this world not being forgotten in the general frenzy of modernization.

Llamazares has published collections of stories, such as 'En mitad de ninguna parte' (1981) and chronicles ('El Entierro de Genarin', 1998). Furthermore, he edited an Anthology about the city of Madrid, which came out as 'Los viajeros de Madrid' in 1998. Articles he wrote as a journalist are collected in 'En Babia' (1991) and 'Nadie escucha' (1995). Llamazares’ travel reports about forgotten regions and districts were published as 'El río del ovido' (1990) and 'Trás-os-Montes' (1998). He also wrote filmscripts and extended reportages – among these, one about Berlin. Recently, his novel "El cielo de Madrid" (2005) was published. The author lives in Madrid and León.