This is a collection of short stories written by 12 Andalusian writers, and what a sad, depressing thing this collection is!
The stories lack any artistic value whatsoever. Rather than works of literature, they represent a sort of a clumsy search for catharsis. The 12 stories are nearly identical in terms of their plot: a man (it is always a man, never a woman) who is almost saintly in his goodness and dedication to his family loses his job. He suffers greatly, considers suicide, but then is miraculously saved by a stranger, his brother, a priest, a child, an angel, and even a demon.
Taken together, these sad little fantasies of magical remedies for unemployment are heartbreaking. Things must be really desperate for people to take solace in angels.
It’s also curious that even though many of these writers are women, the unemployed protagonists are invariably men. This doesn’t mean, of course, that women don’t get fired. Obviously, they do. But these are Hispanic writers, and male suffering always automatically takes precedence over female suffering.
Title: Andalucia: golpe a la crisis
Language: Spanish
Year: 2012
Clarissa's Blog 
Male suffering takes precedence over female suffering; unemployed men vs employed women. I completely agree with you. Remember Mondays under the Sun? The female characters were mostly working, but the male, almost all of them, felt inadequate in their traditional masculinities. And the female character decided to stick to her pathetic boyfriend. I just re-watched that movie yesterday.
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Oh, my still most favorite movie ever! Remember the scene with “sujeto activo”? N and I still laugh about it all the time. When we went to the bank to refinance, N freaked out the banker when he informed him that he’s a passive agent. 🙂
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Oh yes! I am not talking to you, but to the ‘sujeto activo.’ Such a painful scene. Such a good movie.
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