This accessible, atmospheric tale became in fact compulsory reading for secondary education in the late 1970s, and has remained popular. Although not addressed specifically to Young Adult readers, Mecanoscrit del segon origen has been particularly successful among them. Pedrolo's greatest contribution as an author of sf is Mecanoscrit del segon origen ( 1974 trans Sara Martín Alegre as Typescript of the Second Origin 2016), which was followed by Successimultani ( 1980).
Starting with the bombing during the Civil War of the family house in Barcelona, each volume explores a different outcome of this event in the life of the protagonist, Daniel Bastida. His masterpiece is the unfinished nonfantastic eleven-volume series Temps obert ( 1963-1969). He enjoyed, nonetheless, a large readership, ready to welcome the constant innovation offered in his works, which exhibit a constant experimentation with new forms and content, and a disregard for Francoist censorship, often at a high personal cost. He died convinced of his failure as a writer, ignored by official culture. Despite his staunch resistance against the repressive policies of Franco's regime (1939-1975) – he was a Republican soldier during the Civil War (1936-1939) – Pedrolo mistrusted the Catalan literary establishment of the democratic era, choosing to play the role of cranky outsider rather than accept political compromise. (1918-1990) Catalan author of an immensely varied series of works in all genres (poetry, journalism, drama, short fiction and the novel) his full range of accomplishments has not yet been fully acknowledged.
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