Manuel Andújar, a writer from the Exile

Abstract

Manuel Andújar is a clear example of a writer forged in the Spanish exile of 1939. His first work, Saint Cyprien, Beach, Concentration Camp (1942), narrates a stage of that painful experience. He lived in Mexico for twenty-seven years, and that’s where his first novels where published (among them, the well-known trilogy “Eves”). There were also some short tales, dramatic works and a book of poems. He returned to Spain in 1967. In 1973, he published A History Tales, an interesting, vital and humane document about the Civil War. Afterwards, and up to his death, he kept writing novels (Quotes by Ghosts, Voice and Blood, Magic Date and A Gentleman with the Saffron Beard), tales and poems with a main interest in mind: an insight of the human being nature.