Babelia' experts review titles by Laura Casielles, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Joseph Roth, Alexander Gourevitch, Fran G. Matute, Clara Ramas, Javier Argüello, Juan Ramón Jiménez, ...

Luis Cernuda, Max Aub, Joan Salvat-Papasseit and the women writers known as the Sinsombrero.

Spain's relations with Morocco and Western Sahara during the 19th and 20th centuries were fully colonial. It is not valid to say that they were not as bad than those of other European countries or that they did not operate as if they were true colonies, with the excuse that they were fully-fledged Spanish provinces. This is what Laura Casielles states in her necessary essay “Arena en los ojos,” an investigation that shows how history has been hidden or distorted over many decades. Casielles "dares to delve into the murky, the uncomfortable, that which breaks the dichotomies (right-left, bad-good). To give some answers and keep asking," says poet Berta García Faet in her review of the book.

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