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Barea, a non-Communist Loyalist who fled to England when Franco won the Civil War, writes of a non-Communist Loyalist's return to Madrid from England in 1949. Don Antolin Moreno bad abandoned his wife, two sons, and daughter in fleeing for his life. Armed with British naturalization papers and passport, he dares return to try to take charge of his family and to discharge his responsibilities...
...Refugee's Question. Hero Antolin was never a revolutionary. He had worked in a bank, aiming for a decent and simple life. Then he had fought for the Loyalists. Afterward, when he fled to England, Antolin left a wife and three children. The best he could do in London was to become a waiter, send occasional small amounts to his family and learn to be at ease in a new country. He admired English life and especially English regard for individual liberty. He became a British subject, found himself an English girl. But like many a refugee, he thought...
...Antolin finds Madrid a city swamped in extremes of poverty and black-market corruption, ruled by ubiquitous police, in & out of uniform. His own family drives him to alternating spells of despair and disgust. Señora Luisa, his wife, has become a stranger, ugly, shrewish, and a convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape...
...Refugee's Answer. Before Antolin's visit is over, Juan has been killed by Falangists, Señora Luisa is on the verge of insanity, and Pedro deeper than ever in criminality. Overwhelmed by what he has seen in so short a time, Antolin buys Amelia into her convent and prepares to return to England. Perplexed and saddened, he is sure of one thing: he cannot live in Spain...