Un señor elegante

The Baltar family treasures an amazing cultural and human heritage. Attracted by the unusual profile of some of its members, the writer Suso de Toro carries out an investigation to reconstruct the history of a family that, at different times, protects Rosalía de Castro and Murguía and then the Castelao family or Dieste. After handling materials resulting from an intense work of documentation, Suso de Toro offers us a stunning novel, which brings together a personal synthesis of river novel, historical, psychological and novel of ideas. It is a narrative that comes from the 19th century and crosses the 20th, Galician, Spanish and European centuries. A radically local and at the same time European history. An elegant gentleman is, above all, a research novel: the pursuit of an unknown figure who manifests himself until he seizes the whole book and discovers a character committed to his time, people and the country. Someone with a huge ethical dimension. The figure of that Baltar reminds us, from the penumbra, that in addition to the acceptance of defeat and the pure survival of the vanquished, there was also resistance and dissent. This is a memorable non-fiction novel that shows that there was another vital, cheerful and affirmative Galicia, very different from the one we were told.