Ha ha, sorry for the question marks, I don´t know where they came from.
It´s a shame that Aldecoa´s literature is so unknown , even in Spain. The postwar generation is, in my opinion, the most fruitful in Spain but only a few (and I think not the best) are widely know, Carmen Martín Gaite, Ana Maria Matute...
I asked because I am now working in a translation of some of his short stories and I would like to publicate them someday.
Btw, he was from Vitoria, Basqueland (like me), and sure he was not a falangist. Although he was born in a middle-class family and studied in the university, he was not a really good student and was fond of the company of people of the low-classes, gypsies and young artists. He was not really into any political movement, in that moment Spain was almost sterile when it comes to critical thinking, for obvious reasons, and it is why the development of such a great generation of writers is so marvellous.
What I like in his short stories and novels (his poetry is, well... not really good) are his beatiful descriptions of the scenes in which the action takes place and the deep understanding of the "simple" people he depicts. He had the eyes of a little boy and the understanding of a humanist.
Scenes like the one in wich some workers are resting in the early afternoon of a summer day, or that, when a gipsy who had killed a barman scapes from Andalusia to Madrid, are little moments that I hold as more vivid than many of my own memories, and I would like people to enjoy them as well.