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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.

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