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"
Night enters like a vertigo / through the unsuspecting city, / tears the saddest sheets, / crawls behind cowards, / blinds lime and knives / and in the din of words / night also enters
".
At 12:38, in the crematorium of the La Almudena cemetery in
Madrid, one of José Manuel Caballero Bonald's sons read this poem,
Genesis Verse
, from the book
Las adivinaciones
(1952), the first published by the writer.
Behind, the coffin with the corpse of the poet.
Made of pine wood.
Easy.
No frills.
A fragment of Vivaldi's 'Primavera' also sounded.
There were 21 people, adding to his extended family, firing one of the last witnesses of the Generation of 50
.
Poet, narrator, essayist.
One of the main authors of the last half century in Spanish.
And a benchmark in the study and dissemination of flamenco.
The flower crowns arrived: from the Cervantes Institute, from the Gypsy Heritage, from Joaquín Sabina, from the grandchildren and children.
For what else.
Among those present, the editor Chus Visor and his wife, Conchita;
the poets Fanny Rubio, José Ramón Ripoll, Joaquín Pérez Azaústre and Manuel Rico.
The literary agent Palmira Márquez and the co-director of 'Zenda', Miguel Munárriz;
the journalist Juan Cruz ...
There was no institutional representation of the Ministry of Culture.
Minister
Rodríguez Uribes
did not appear at the funeral home or at the crematorium
.
Caballero Bonald won the Cervantes Prize in 2012.
On Sunday, when the news of the death of the author
of the Violators Manual was known
, from Culture they
sent
the
meaning
of
a
tweet of condolences.
There was only one drawback:
the photo they chose to illustrate it was by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
.
When they were warned, they rectified 10 minutes later.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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