The novel "Ayer, mañana," by the filmmaker and writer Benito Rabal, is inspired by situations that have happened to the author or to his friends.

"Damn! you have to write them,” one of them told me. Very little has been written about the Transition era. I think it was very interesting to tell the experiences lived and to do it in an original way," says the Madrid-based author who lives in the Murcian town of Águilas.

"The title of the book has to do with the fact that there seemed to be no future in those years. Yesterday is counted with hope and tomorrow with optimism. A more just world was sought in those years and it was gradually achieved. Now I am working on another book that I have been commissioned and it will be titled, "Aún así, la vida," a book about my family and me," the writer who had already published a book of poems "Letras del sur," tells us; he also did ghost writing for his mother and has collaborated on different books about cinema.

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