Aurora de Albornoz returns to Madrid in 1968, the year of changes and revolutions. Spain is a very different country from the one that has been building in its memory, and will discover it little by little, in its first days as a teacher in the Humanities Department of the Autonomous University of Madrid and at the University of New York in Spain. He is 42 years old and has specialized in Spanish and Latin American authors in the vicinity of the Civil war, such as Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda or Miguel de Unamuno, with a direct knowledge of the Spanish writers of exile. Although much of his life has passed in Puerto Rico, Aurora de Albornoz has always been closely linked to his country of origin: after sorbonne, he finished his doctorate in Salamanca; And, in 1961, seven years before his return, he has published, in the Adonáis collection, his book poems to reach a second. Also in 1961, in Puerto Rico, he has gathered in a volume the war poems of Antonio Machado, whose publication will not be allowed in Franco’s Spain. The country to which Aurora de Albornoz reaches to start teaching literature has begun to live in its poetry the transition. 1968 is also the year of the publication of death in Beverly Hills, by Pere Gimferrer, who just two years earlier, in 1966, has already agitated the waters stagnated by the moral grief of the dictatorship with his book burns the sea. His poems to reach a second part of the evocation of childhood, with the flood girl who evokes in her memory not only the time, but the country itself, with a loneliness of remoteness that will find refuge in literature.
