The first memories. Matuta A.M.

Ana Maria Matuta is a Spanish writer. In 1976, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. After the publication of the novel “The Forgotten King of Hud” in 1996 was elected a member of the Spanish Royal Academy - the third woman for 300 years of the history of the Academy. In 2010, she received a Cervantes Prize. And now the Spanish writers can get a prize of her name.

“The first memories” is the first part of the Torgashi trilogy, continued by the novels “Soldiers cry at night” and “Trap”. It enters the island, into a strange house, into the unusual atmosphere of despotism, which resists. The girl sees how the internal aggression of each of the inhabitants is growing.

the effect of the novel proceeds on Mallorca in the military in 1936. There is no name of the island in the novel, but the book introduced the motives related to its history.

Ana Maria Matuta wrote in one of the most difficult cultural periods in the history of Spain, the period of abandoning the old ideology and creating new intellectual traditions.

“I write to encourage the reader to think in order to get an answer from him, which I do not know to protest.” - Ana Maria Matuta

“The first memories” is a clash of childhood with reality.

Despite the anxious atmosphere, adolescents live adventures and their secrets, without losing its purity, innocence and magical The power of imagination.