This novel was published in 1985, in the Novela Cátedra collection, now extinct. The time elapsed has confirmed its validity, as one of the most reliable testimonies of the end of the dictatorship and the preambles of the Transition.
The critic Sanz Villanueva once said: ‘The memory of 68. Rodríguez Almodóvar is the one who has made one of the first chronicles of his generation, which, apart from his artistic merits, cannot be ignored by sociologists of literature.’
Antonio Rodriguez Almodovar publishes
VARIATIONS FOR A SAXOPHONE
A beautiful political-erotic-musical entanglement between Seville and Madrid,
back in the inevitable 60s.
Antonio Rodriguez Almodovar (Alcalá de Guadaira, Seville, 1941) is a writer with a long literary career. Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, he is the author of more than forty works.
He cultivates almost all genres: from the novel to the essay, through theatre, poetry, children’s stories, television scripts, literary criticism and journalistic collaborations, mainly in the newspaper El País. It is worth highlighting his dedication to the study, recovery and dissemination of Spanish folk tales (Cuentos al amor de la lumbre, I and II).
His literary work has been recognised over the years with various awards, such as the 2005 National Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature for El bosque de los sueños (The Forest of Dreams); the 1991 International Prize for Young Adult Fiction, Infanta Elena, for Un lugar similitud al Paraíso (A Place Similar to Paradise); and the 2004 Ateneo de Sevilla Prize for Short Stories for El hombre que se volví secundarios (The Man Who Became Relative). Between 1969 and 1973 he was a professor at the University of Seville, from which he was removed for his active participation in the anti-Franco struggle. He was the director of the popular culture magazine Demófilo, a continuation of the one founded by Antonio Machado y Álvarez. He also directed the work of transcribing and studying Machado’s manuscripts, which Unicaja acquired in 2003.
In 2016 he was elected corresponding academic of the Royal Spanish Academy.
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