Correillo La Palma will be the unusual setting for the presentation of a book. It will take place next Monday, March 21, at 12:00, and the protagonist will be its author, Judge Pascual Ortuño, who enters the world of the novel by the hand of Those days of the Sahara (Ediciones del Azar), which recounts many events that the author witnessed and that readers from the Canary Islands will not be unrelated to.
The retired magistrate Joaquín Astor Landete, the veteran of the Sahara Florencio Yumar Suárez and the Saharawi lawyer Louella Mint El Mamy will participate in the event.
the plot of Those days of the Sahara It takes place between the attack on Admiral Carrero Blanco, penultimate president of the Francoist Government, until the final phase of the abandonment of the Sahara and the Saharawis by the Spanish State when Morocco imposed its domination over those territories through the Green March.
The author knows perfectly both the setting and the events and the atmosphere that was breathed those last years of colonial possession. His political activism and an arrest at the University led the authorities at the time to send him to the Sahara for compulsory military service.
More or less what happens to Emilio Portón, the protagonist, an engineering student in Valencia, who is retaliated against for his participation in the 1972 university struggles against the dictatorship. Not so far away in the Sahara is the decisive Spanish political events, the harsh repression against opposition movements, including those that moved within the Army and that culminated in 1975 with the fall of the Democratic Military Union (UMD). But all tied together thanks to a love story and the experiences of the novel’s protagonists.
Pascual Ortuño is a magistrate at the Provincial Court of Barcelona. His specialty is mediation for conflict resolution on which he wrote an essay, justice without judges (Ariel, 2018). Judicial report is also his work ungrateful children (Random, 2020). He is also the author of a literary essay on Zenobia Camprubí versus Juan Ramón Jiménez, In the shadow (Alhulia, 2019).
