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"They blame me for having to flee, for having to abandon you all, as if I were a thief. As if I were a foreigner." (Aub, 1968)

"They blame me for having to flee, for having to abandon you all, as if I were a thief. As if I were a foreigner." "You are just imagining all that," his wife replies. "Then why," Emilio retorts, "don't they write me more often?"

Aub writes about the sense of guilt that exiles feel when having to leave their country, their famillies and loved ones.
His character, Emilio, expresses this feeling when thinking about the choice he had to make to leave his wife and children in Spain, believing that they resent his choice.

As he reflects on his decisions and its consequences, Emilio comes to doubt that fleeing his country, Spain, during the Civil War, for his political connvictions was worth the troubles he got into as well as the pain he caused.

Aub, M. 1968. Teatro completo. México, D.F.: Aguilar.

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