• Cunqueirerías.The delusional prose prose of AC

Nothing looks like Álvaro Cunqueiro. And much less Álvaro Cunqueiro. Perhaps a lord of the NO-DO sitting in the Bernabéu, or one looking at ballots in the Transition, or going out in a dressing gown to have an event breakfast. Threshold thus closed an interview, or a meal, which he published in the Literary Estafeta in 1969, when the Galician won the Nadal: « In America it would be Borges. In Europe it would be Andersen. In Spain he runs a newspaper to live . We will never learn to value our writers less than a century late. Now they have given him a jackpot and maybe we found out. On the other hand, he doesn't seem to care too much. He has eaten well and that is enough.

In Galicia you leave school with Cunqueiro read for not going to Tolkien. Only the Galician character prevents mourning mermaids, double-tailed dogs, umbrellas to understand all languages ​​and imaginary saints from decorating his grave. Or that bikers visit her with Galician phrases of her Hamlet tattooed on her forearm. And that for Mondoñedo, his Middle Earth , wanders a sect that runs through his distorting memory, along paths that are rolled up on a scroll, and that feeds on his impossible recipe books.

Cunqueiro was born a druid , "between the clogs and the lightning bolts, in the middle of the night, forty-seven days after the first airplane." A staging entry to propose to the Nobel, at the late discretion of the Royal Galician Academy, and said of all the dead who wrote a tenth of what they came up with . Also to spare for a series of Netflix, which is what is said of those who lived a tenth that Cunqueiro.

The former press officer of the Royal Spanish Academy, Miguel González Somovilla, has decided to select for the Castro Library 200 from among its more than 20,000 articles in half a century and half a hundred publications . All seem written by a sorcerer, or by any of the angels in his dictionary, as a directory of paradise.

His life as a journalist is the unlikely part. The boy who knew all the herbs and all the birds became a nationalist in his twenties a few hours before they began to kill for it. Not to sow doubts, of the radical wing of the Galleguista Party . He survived fleeing just enough to not fall into the sea, Ortigueira, and writing for a Falangist magazine, so credible that Franco's government wanted to sign the entire workforce, until he discovered that Cunqueiro wrote all his articles, and those of the other signatories invented. From there to ABC .

In Madrid, says the documentary by Antón Reixa The uncertain Mr. Cunqueiro , the French embassy paid him to publish an article to improve the image of France in Spain. But he did not do it, or considered the payment was just enough to improve the image of France in a single Spanish . That unleashed a diplomatic conflict, and caused him exemplary punishment. The press card was withdrawn, 2.490, a circular was sent to all the media so that he was not hired, and his expulsion from the Phalanx was ordered, which allowed him to discover that, although he had published it, he had never joined . "The real news is what is 300 years old ... The modern news is false," he wrote in 1953.

Retired in Mondoñedo only manages to publish a saint in a Catholic magazine, and takes the opportunity to attribute to the invented holy miracles. "He loved saints because they seemed like magicians," says César Antonio Molina. So, depressed for not being able to work as a journalist, he spends his time becoming the greatest Galician language prosecutor of all time.

His literary journalism was not without risk either. He wrote a text and soon returned in the form of a legend. Once a priest told him about a demon who turned into a bathtub to see the nuns naked , not knowing that it had been an occurrence of Cunqueiro himself.

Shun from what is considered topical, ("which does not mean that I practice a literature of evasion, or that I settle for evil and injustice, and that I do not love freedom and do not seek that misery disappears," he said ), served to become director of the Lighthouse of Vigo , but in his own way. He is appointed part-time editor of Sports and writes football forecasts using a tarot deck. In the first article, neither one is right, which is useful for writing the second one, explaining itself. Both collected in the selection of González Somovilla.

The Castro Library work only confirms that Cunqueiro's last work is the myth that is still being written about himself. Deciphering it is like trying to catch a bus to Foz , in the Juan Cueto plan in 1982, when he went to see what was left of Mondoñedo after the collapse of Cunqueiro, and it occurred to him to ask for help from an old man, and confirm that Cunqueiro was left everything. "All schedules are misrepresented," he said.

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