Ricardo Lugo

And there begins a life that is increasingly unclosed.

Pero el punto de no retorno para él fue cuando Austria, su tierra, es anexada por la Alemania Nazi.

Ahí no solamente él pierde su país, pierde su hogar, ese hogar espiritual que mencionamos, de una manera mucho más tangible.

Por ejemplo, en Salzburgo llegan a quemar libros de distintos autores, entre ellos, Stefan Zweig.

Also, his mother dies, he has to divorce his first wife, he becomes British, that's not enough.

In times of war, all identity is a bit fragile.

And also, despite being English, English society sees all these people with German accent and of German or Austrian origin as suspicious.

The foreign enemy in times of war is not the label you want to have.

So many refugees and exiles in England begin to leave.

A refugiarse y a exiliarse en otros lugares.

Y este fazo ahí me lo imagino mirando el mapa europeo y decide aquí no hay opción para mí, aquí no hay un espacio para mí.

Abandona Europa y se va a Sudamérica, a Brasil.

No pasa mucho tiempo ahí.

En 1942, durante el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, él y su esposa, su segunda esposa en este caso, se suicidan simultáneamente.

Just after having sent the manuscript, by the way, of Novela de Ajedrez.

And that's very interesting because for years it was thought that his suicide had to do with Nazi Germany winning the war 2-0 in the first half.

That he felt that this war was going to be an apocalypse, that evil was going to triumph.

And to a certain extent, yes, he lost faith, we've talked about that, but he didn't have faith that Germany was going to win.

Now with new writings and manuscripts analyzed, he really felt that Germany was going to lose the war, but he felt that Europe broke.

In the social, in the linguistic, in the cultural, in the historical, in the political.