Madrid Will Be Their Tomb | 
^^ p 90 alienation in urban environment, Madrid‘s “unceasing march towards the total eradication of tenderness.” Activists from 2 extremes trying to build community.
Sweeping rhetoric to justify violence:
138 “in no case was it a question of hate, but a question of order […] a will to protect one‘s own, to get rid of the knots and beasts encircling one‘s own, to tear the fairytale castles out of the sky, to put an end to so many years of misery.”
pickOperatic, propulsive, passionate tiny volume. Big stakes, big love. Political activists as starcrossed lovers: Romeo & Romeo (are the Capulets the fascists or the Marxists?). Love the tone, intimacy, admiring & mocking these young men caught up in big ideas, looking to change the world & themselves. Well paced, measured voice, big climax. Violence, propaganda. City as character. What do we have in common with the “enemy?” Excellent trans. 2023.
