Antonio Gala en su paisaje

Antonio Gala appears as an irreplaceable figure, an unusual phenomenon, in the media space of transition and democracy. His plays broke box office records, his novels topped the sales charts, his public interventions were real events, but, without a doubt, it was his columns in the press that gave him extraordinary recognition and visibility, despite the silence or suspicion. from a part of criticism and the intellectual world. From the gallery of the paper Parliament, the writer has accompanied his readers for more than forty years, leaving us an incomparable testimony. These columns have not lost an iota of their validity and keep reflection, analysis and shared emotion alive. Going through the various forms that her commitment took, Françoise Dubosquet Lairys invites us to accompany the figure in her landscape, to listen to a voice that rises as an individual but solidarity cry, since it welcomes the voices of the heirs of a story hurtful. Gala's articles tell us about being in front of his land, his sorrows, his lost or broken loves, his anguish and joys. From the triple fidelity to himself, to his time and to his people, the fine observer of an entire era proposes a way of thinking about the world that surrounds us, through the dialogue between the past and the present.