The boys sometimes have boisterous sex with their bedroom door open. Ignacio might at any time appear before Clara or his mother stark naked, with no reprimands ensuing. “A child, blond like me, standing heedless at the edge of a cliff, miraculously held up by the wings of his guardian angel, while… a reddish, bloody chasm yawned far below.” Against such horrors, Clara, a live-in servant, becomes Ignacio’s sole source of nurturing affection.ĭespite the family tensions, a vicarious eroticism infuses the household. To young Ignacio one painting seems especially linked to the perils of homo desire. Though the family are not churchgoers, their Catholic heritage ensures the house is filled with religious images. Spain is still bleeding from the Spanish Civil War and firmly under the yoke of Franco’s fascist dictatorship.
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