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“He was a hard-working, tender and generous man, with a sense of humor, so rare now. Perhaps he was hard on people who did not interest him at all,” says to EFE the current president of the Francisco Umbral Foundation.

– I think the documentary is perfect, very interesting, among other things because it expands the knowledge that his readers and followers had of him. Everything he tells is, as I say, very valuable.

– His friends, the people who admired and loved him knew what he was really like. He was a hard-working, tender and generous man, with a sense of humor, so rare nowadays. Perhaps he was hard on people he didn’t care for at all.

– As I have told many times, he was a great admirer of women: of young, beautiful, well-read women, of course. And he had many female followers, but he never went with any of them despite the insistence of some. There was me.

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In Valladolid he began writing in the magazine Cisne, of the S.E.U., and attended poetry readings and conferences. He began his journalistic career in 1958 in El Norte de Castilla promoted by Miguel Delibes, who noticed his talent for writing. Later he moved to León to work in the radio station La Voz de León and in the newspaper Proa and to collaborate in El Diario de León. By then his readings were mainly poetry, especially Juan Ramón Jiménez and poets of the generation of 27, but also Valle-Inclán, Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Pablo Neruda.

As a columnist, he practiced a kind of declassed and anti-bourgeois costumbrismo that did not renounce the most intensely romantic self and tried to give the everyday, in the words of Novalis, the dignity of the unknown, mixing street and culture and sometimes impregnated with a desolate tenderness. As a political chronicler, Umbral also displayed a great acidity and mordacity and an incredible intuition to capture the hidden epidermis of the issues. In 1993 he was involved in a bitter controversy for calling the people of Aranda de Duero “rednecks” in the program Queremos saber (We want to know), of Antena 3. The presidential candidate José María Aznar had been received in this town in the odor of crowds while Felipe González had been booed at the University in those same days. In that same program there was also the famous anecdote of “I have come to talk about my book”, in which Umbral asked for the floor to claim, in a very angry and insistent way, that the subject of his book La década roja was not being addressed as he had been promised, while Mercedes Milá tried to appease him.[11]

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In Valladolid he began to write in the magazine Cisne, of the S.E.U., and attended poetry readings and conferences. He began his journalistic career in 1958 in El Norte de Castilla promoted by Miguel Delibes, who noticed his talent for writing. Later he moved to León to work in the radio station La Voz de León and in the newspaper Proa and to collaborate in El Diario de León. By then his readings were mainly poetry, especially Juan Ramón Jiménez and poets of the generation of 27, but also Valle-Inclán, Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Pablo Neruda.

As a columnist, he practiced a kind of declassed and anti-bourgeois costumbrismo that did not renounce the most intensely romantic self and tried to give the everyday, in the words of Novalis, the dignity of the unknown, mixing street and culture and sometimes impregnated with a desolate tenderness. As a political chronicler, Umbral also displayed a great acidity and mordacity and an incredible intuition to capture the hidden epidermis of the issues. In 1993 he was involved in a bitter controversy for calling the people of Aranda de Duero “rednecks” in the program Queremos saber (We want to know), of Antena 3. The presidential candidate José María Aznar had been received in this town in the odor of crowds while Felipe González had been booed at the University in those same days. In that same program there was also the famous anecdote of “I have come to talk about my book”, in which Umbral asked for the floor to claim, in a very angry and insistent way, that the subject of his book La década roja was not being addressed as he had been promised, while Mercedes Milá tried to appease him.[11]

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In Valladolid he began to write in the magazine Cisne, of the S.E.U., and attended poetry readings and conferences. He began his journalistic career in 1958 in El Norte de Castilla promoted by Miguel Delibes, who noticed his talent for writing. Later he moved to León to work in the radio station La Voz de León and in the newspaper Proa and to collaborate in El Diario de León. By then his readings were mainly poetry, especially Juan Ramón Jiménez and poets of the generation of 27, but also Valle-Inclán, Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Pablo Neruda.

As a columnist, he practiced a kind of declassed and anti-bourgeois costumbrismo that did not renounce the most intensely romantic self and tried to give the everyday, in the words of Novalis, the dignity of the unknown, mixing street and culture and sometimes impregnated with a desolate tenderness. As a political chronicler, Umbral also displayed a great acidity and mordacity and an incredible intuition to capture the hidden epidermis of the issues. In 1993 he was involved in a bitter controversy for calling the people of Aranda de Duero “rednecks” in the program Queremos saber (We want to know), of Antena 3. The presidential candidate José María Aznar had been received in this town in the odor of crowds while Felipe González had been booed at the University in those same days. In that same program there was also the famous anecdote of “I have come to talk about my book”, in which Umbral asked for the floor to claim, in a very angry and insistent way, that the subject of his book La década roja was not being addressed as he had been promised, while Mercedes Milá tried to appease him.[11]