El polizón del Ulises

One of Spain's foremost novelists and short story writers of the post-civil war period, Matute is particularly renowned for her loving but unsentimental stories about children and adolescents. Marked by existential anguish and poignant lyricism, these stories often focus on traumatic experiences, which lead to a child's sudden awakening to the sordid, cruel, and hypocritical adult world.