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In 1962 Juan Marsé toured the provinces of Seville, Cádiz and Málaga accompanied by his friend Antonio Pérez and by photographer Alber t Ripoll Guspi. His intention was to write a chronicle of that trip, interspersing photographs and headlines from the Francoist press, in such a way that his story infiltrated the reality that the official power silenced. Due to financial problems and the pressure of censorship, this magnificent literary and political document that was to be published by the legendary publisher Ruedo Ibérico, recently founded in Paris by a group of Spanish exiles, did not come to light, and for a long time it was believed that the manuscript had been lost