O'Donoghue, Samuel (2014) Nature as Enemy of Man in Julio Llamazares's Luna de lobos. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 50 (3). pp. 356-370. ISSN 0015-8518
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To synopsize Luna de lobos as a fictionalized account of the struggle between Republican guerrillas and the Civil Guard in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War is clearly misleading. A close reading of the work reveals an additional protagonist in this guerrilla battle set in the mountains of northern Spain: the natural world. This article provides a close analysis of Llamazares's presentation of nature in order to support the assertion that the novel transcends the specificity of Spain's history to provide a broader existential study of man's place in the universe, in particular his relationship with the natural world. In Luna de lobos, nature is a hostile force that brutalizes the protagonists. This presentation of the natural world conforms to Llamazares's aesthetic concerns as a Romantic. For Llamazares, the relationship between man and nature has become irremediably fractured.