25 years with Tres Trilogías

María Ángeles Rodríguez Arango

Trilogy of space

It includes the titles: Rueda de girasol (1964), Cancionero de proa (1967) and El rey de las estrellas (1968).

Rueda del girasol is edited in the number 44 of the Colección Rocamador and appears in 1964. It insists on the solitude and anguish of the city. The great majority of the first drafts of this book were written during a trip the author carried out from Algeciras to Ronda. The steep landscape of the place had impressed him so much that, in addition to feeling as if he was floating in the air, it made him forget the coming and going of the city and the port, of the commerce and smuggling. It has three parts, but the most significant is the second one because he reflects in it the city he strolled through, as a lonely and nostalgic person.

Cancionero de proa appears in 1967 and reflects the traveling experiences based on the first years of profession. The train will become symbol of life, symbol of running towards the sea (death) passing people it invites to join together their hands. He also observes the world from the windscreen of the car or from the hatchway of the ship.

El rey de las estrellas dates from 1969 and in it, he looks from the astronauts’ spacesuits. The night the man managed to reach the moon, the 20th of July, 1969, popularized the Neil Amstrong’s phrase: “A small step for a human being, but a gigantic one for Humanity”. The author makes good use of the occasion to move to the moon all the men’s silence and solitude.

Trilogy of time I Trilogy of space I Trilogy of death