Joaquín Pérez Azaústre (Córdoba, 1976) was similarly moved by admiration and a sense of justice when he wrote his latest novel. “I think in Spain we are very unfair to Manuel Machado,” he said. “It is easy for us to classify, to label ideologies that are always at one extreme or the other. It is necessary to put his life and work in their due place.” This effort has crystallized into dear brother Galaxia Gutenberg is a novel that, among other things, recreates the writer’s journey from Burgos to Collioure after hearing the news of the death of his brother Antonio Machado .
Simplificationists have long dismissed Manuel Machado as facha poet Because of his insistence on Franco’s regime and his poetry against Franco, Antonio would be red poet For his support of the Republic and his famous sonnet to Enrique Liszt. However, Pérez Azaústre denounced that “it is easier to apply labels than to investigate the reality. Not everyone knows, for example, that Antonio raised the flag of the Republic on the balcony of Segovia City Hall XII Queen Manuel read a hymn to the Republic composed by Oscar Espra at the Ateneo de Madrid.”