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Article: Tierra de silencio: Relatos castellanos.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Andres Sorel, ed. Barcelona. Muchnik 2001. 152 pages. 9.02 [euro] ISBN 84-7669-476-8
IN ORDER TO DISCOVER the literary landscape of Castile and Leon during the fall of 2000, a group of twelve prominent writers met at the famous San Marcos Parador to try to present individual glimpses of what they considered the essence of their homeland. The project was organized by the new Ministry of Culture, which is an indication of the gigantic transformation taking place in the writers' fatherland since the death of the generalisimo.
All the stories in Tierra de silencio have rural settings, as if each of the writers had realized that their essence could only be ...