An unpublished letter from Gonzalo Torrente Ballester to Ricardo Carballo Calero

Abstract

This article reviews the friendship between the Galician writers Gonzalo Torrente Ballester and Ricardo Carballo Calero. They met in their youth and shared many experiences together. Their friendship lasted over time, even during the Spanish Civil War, in which they were on different sides. Nevertheless, their relationship remained just as affectionate and stable, and proof of this is Gonzalo's unpublished letter to Ricardo, written in 1964, when, living in different parts of Spain, they kept on sending each other letters, congratulating themselves on their new publications and sending regards to their respective families.