Josep Maria Quintana

Les revolucions perdudes

INFORMATION

On the island of Pregonda, an imaginary space that resembles Menorca, a progressive magistrate, son and grandson of monarchic and Catholic notaries, reviews the two revolutions that have gone through his own life and that of his family. The novel, in the form of a letter to his daughter Silvia, recalls the year in which the main character lived as a student in Toulouse, in 1967-68, where he had ended up with the excuse of learning French, but with the hidden will to come into contact with Republican exiles from his native island and be able to redo the great disaster that occurred in the summer of 1936. The search for exiles, the power of family memories, the studies on Sartre and existentialism, the days of May lived in Paris and the awakening to sexuality of the young protagonist are mixed with the impressions of the narrator when, now mature, he values the failure of the two revolutionary adventures. Neither did the defenders of the Second Republic rise to the occasion, nor did France know how to channel a movement that would end up reinforcing General De Gaulle.