Galápago

Galápago is the choral history, between reality and fiction, of a small Andalusian city, Úbeda, and its geographical scope throughout almost a century of our memory, not so recent. Mainly structured in the environment of two family sagas, its three generations of protagonists describe the political and social evolution of some people on whom today only oblivion lives. This is the evolution of a society with a predominantly rural composition and caciquil structure that, in a lethargic, sometimes almost ceremonial way, is making its way towards the new uses and customs of an impossible modernity, whose renovating element is a commercial petty bourgeoisie. However, incapable of tackling by itself the challenges that the new decades impose and whose sad end will be marked by the tragic impact of the Civil War and its aftermath of death, emigration and darkness. It is the story of a city to which the author has not spared his fabled portion, which is as much as talking about the portion of poetry that spills its beautiful urban and architectural heritage or its landscape, but even less has he tried to steal the sentimental legacy of a people forged over centuries in its own material and -for many- moral narrowness. This is, therefore, to a great extent also, the reduced history, sometimes metonymic, of an entire unfortunate and beautiful country.