Eulalia's House: A Novel of the Spanish Civil War

Eulalia's House is set in the early months of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The protagonist António conforms to the author's own experience. Unquestionably, he was wrestling in his later years with the memory of events he had lived through personally, trying to consolidate their lasting meaning in fictionalized form. It's clear why he chose to write under a pseudonym, as a great deal of autobiographical data seeps into his fiction, as in other works. At the same time, the fictional format allowed him to incorporate incidents and representative persons he either knew himself or whose histories he had learned, and to relive, or reinvent, at least fictionally, parts of his own life. People today speak of multiverses, the whole course of events that would have unspooled had you made this decision rather than that one, and it seems Tiago is doing that here.