Crime, Journalism and Power in ‘The Days That Never Existed’, Daniel Ramírez’s first novel

These segments are fed as the environment is recreated to activate the action real situations of social reality: a war between two major national periodicals, corruption conspiracies affecting government, business and the media, reflections on the limits of journalism…

But unlike a report or an interview, the places of those who write about the Republic, the Spanish Civil War and Transition (the former Francisco Valdés Prize) have a dual purpose in this ambitious project: novel two episodes of our historical memory understand the extent of what is at any given moment “the perspective of each man hija his time” and explain the proposition with an evident desire for a literary style.

These two goals move in the same direction: instead of being limited to offering a story the relationship between power and journalismthe omniscient narrator skims through the sorrows of one and the other, from the revealing angles of new perspectives, over crimes committed in the past. Angles from those who focus on unpleasant situations such as the continuation of the story terrorist violencejustifying ideologies with irreparable consequences, intentions of reconciliation between victims and disgraced people, or the difficult balance between the need for justice and the desire for healing. Barbed topics inserted with an arrow in a story that asks you questions and challenges your memory.

In which places to make this engine? To begin, in the face of the common idea to offer a relationship to the person who orbits the characters, in this it is the main character, Julia Mendietamain story, we will tell you about the story by unraveling two parallel plots: an obsessive quest to uncover the identity of the ETA terrorist who disappeared against Abueltwenty years ago when crime is in the prescription phase. And investigating the mystery that guides them interview with the last Nazi pilot of the bombing of Guernicain 1937.

A story of unusual intensity in unpleasant situations, such as the aftermath of a crime of violence and violence

She is a young, obsessed and persistent journalist until the end. In one of the reporting periods, it occupies a relevant position, and the economic crisis and the crisis of credibility do not help it, because it will pass. In this context of traffic, the director asks you to write a report that includes a significant journey, dear readers.

What we see is the vicissitudes of many dimensions and a story of unusual intensitywhich works in favor of the story, thanks to the precise work on the history of its characters and the complete angle from which its action is focused. This aspect keeps everyone’s interest alive, even if it weakens the composition a bit at certain moments, open to twists and actions aimed at the epicness of the story.

We actually help you (and you are one of the main action characters) in the process of creating and investigating Julia’s report, in the search for evidence in the field of justice and in explaining difficult questions; final conclusion, generator of new ideas.

In the margins, accompanying each of the plots, the repeated verses of José Agustín Goytisol (“Palabras para Julia”) that the boys recorded and his reading The banalization of evilby Hannah Arendt, the boy who keeps her free so she can relive the tragic tragedy of her childhood. Let us actually explain to Julia and release her pain through this story.