Child of Spanish civil war is attaining readership and recognition that eluded her in her lifetime
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“It’s not that she didn’t write; it’s just that she didn’t publish her work during the dictatorship,” says Remedios Sánchez, a close friend of Escribano and literature lecturer at Granada University, who edited the collected works. “Her mother, Luisa, was terrified that she would lose her daughter as well as her husband. She couldn’t bear the idea that the regime would put her daughter in jail – or do something even worse. Mariluz respected that fear.
“Mariluz writes most of her works between 1958 and 1985, at a time when it’s the only way for her to express all the pain she’s feeling – a pain that she can’t speak about publicly,” says Sánchez. “That’s the first part of the story. She starts to publish her work when her mother dies in 1987. She seems to be writing from a different time; a different generation. As she herself put it: ‘I’m writing from a time that’s anchored in what is remote.
The sentiments are echoed by María Jesús García López, the head of Cátedra, the publishers of the new volume, who sees parallels between Escribano and the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado.
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