Víctima de la piedad

"She began to call her that in her anguish, Antigone, because innocent she endured the story; because, having been born for love, pity was devouring her." This is how María Zambrano described her beloved sister Araceli from her when he was able to meet her again after the end of World War II. The beautiful and unfortunate Araceli Zambrano had survived in occupied Paris having to endure the harassment of the Gestapo and the dramatic experience of the arrest and extradition to Franco's Spain of her sentimental partner, Manuel Muñoz (former Director General of Security of the Republic, shot in Madrid in December 1942). A few years before, Araceli Zambrano had already suffered the tragedy of the Civil War and the breakdown of her marriage with her long-awaited Carlos Díez, a doctor and communist militant, who, after his subsequent exile in the USSR and in Mexico, would end up committing suicide in Venezuela in 1952. The intertwined lives of Araceli and María Zambrano, Manuel Muñoz and Carlos Díez make up the plot of this novel that, supported by historical data, delves into the interior of the characters to rescue, in a confessional way, the intimate voices of some victims. whose failed hopes turned into delusions.