Cuando ya nada se espera

Stefan Zweig begins The World of Yesterday by confessing that many things, events, catastrophes and tests have had to happen for one to dare to write a book that has it as its center. Many things have also happened to the author of these memoirs. José Antonio Griñán gives an account of the reality of the broken and divided country that he lived through in his childhood and youth. And also of the events that made the Transition one of the happiest moments, and also distressing, of our tormented history. The book also contains reflections on the 1978 coexistence pact and its projection to the present. And, finally, it includes the narration of some of the events that marked the political life of the author, from the ministerial portfolios that he assumed to the presidency of the Junta de Andalucía. These memoirs have the extraordinary value of showing us the vision of a person who has carried out important responsibilities and who has the precise information for a documented approach to a time that goes from our long post-war years to what Anne Applebaum has called 'the sound irritant of current politics'. An era that contains exactly the time of a life, that of the author, and that of a generation.