Voramar Hotel in Las Villas Benicassim is one of those places where time seems to stand still. Built as a spa in 1927, served as a field hospital du 
during the years Civil War and is famous (or legend) that passed through it writers like Hemingway, Dos Passos, Ilia Erenburg and other celebrities. During the fifties, again converted into a hotel, the Voramar was "assaulted" by the "troupe" of Luis García Berlanga film he shot there, one of the funniest ensemble film "Bride view" (1953), with Jorge Vico and a select cast of young and older players (remember Rodero and Lopez Vazquez, in small roles). Since then the Voramar was a favorite haunt for many vacationers eager to enjoy a peaceful break in a privileged setting on the edge 1 sea and so on for pleasure and enjoyment of those looking for relaxing a different site nearby, but also isolated, from the noise that haunts merciless, especially in summer, in the near Benicassim. met for the first time Voramar hotel in the late eighties for a short business trip to Castellon, then I have spent short stays of no more than a week, enjoying the views from its outdoor terrace or taking a drink sunset while listening to the soothing sounds of the sea. Pleasures of the later age that is best savored as one gets closer to the "cavernous depths of old age", who said Pere Gimferrer.
During my last visit to Voramar last fall, I had the opportunity to purchase in the hotel's book Manuel Vicent "green-eyed Lion " I already knew by hearsay. The main hotels and the important thing here is the floor and not the size, need to transcend the literature to achieve a solid reputation. This opportunity to convert a hotel in myth is provided by Manuel Vicent tray with this work that takes place of its multiple intersecting an imaginary stories, and no less real, Voramar hotel in 1953. I have not read, it is clear, Vicent all books that are over fifty. I recently read " Son de mar", the novel of the crocodile, then shot for the film. Vincent, a writer who rarely disappoint, combining very well known fact and fiction and uses a fluid prose that seems easy and I guess worked and polished with great skill. In this novel, which reads a pair of free time or at a stretch during a long trip, shows his ability to draw characters and weave stories that keep the plot and convey feelings and emotions. I do not think Vincent is, as I read somewhere, a cold writer, of a purely technical without emotion, like a Greek statue, on the contrary I think he knows convert remembrance of things lived or told in first-class literary material displaying a high capacity for imagination . Write
, Vicent account in this book, recalling that summer of 1953, " is an adventure in which one was obliged to discover each day a treasure island ." The greatest discovery, leaving everyone shocked hotel guests, except the film's director, is the appearance on the fiction of a French couple with a daughter " had Pomeranian puppy face with the little nose, the ponytail and matted on the forehead. She wore tight shorts and just jelled breasts seemed loose and free to fluctuate under silk shirt. " Naturally
Miss Bardot did not come to Spain, specifically Madrid until he was famous, a few years later. I remember, though I confuse reality and fiction, that it must have been around 1955 or 1956 and was, indeed, a very cute girl, removing the hiccups.
Okay remembering things, enjoy sensuality of memory and nostalgia for lost time feed. That's the thinking and feeling how I feel about reading this novel by Manuel Vicent to evoke unique and unrepeatable events of adolescence in which we awareness of living a moment that never before have we lived and, melancholy, remember now, at the time it takes to read this novel, as within us seem to hear the sound of the waves breaking against the terrace the Voramar.
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
March, 2010
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NOTES
1 . journalist Martin Prieto, one of the fans should Voramar, features, fact or fiction? he had a French couple who had reserved hotel room had been thirty-six years and as an example of a hotel that is "kind of a family house that has grown without any pretension and with great sincerity," maintaining "a philosophy as anti-speculation hotel Rushing goodness" (Martin Prieto. The last refuge. World, do not keep cutting date, prior to 2000)
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