El autor desea relatar en estas memorias el resurgir de una comunidaddiezmada y casi aniquilada como resultado de un conflicto b?lico quedur¢ varios a¤os, y de las graves consecuencias de una posguerra cuyofin est  a£n por ver. Es la Guerra Civil espa¤ola la causante deldesastre vivido, que dinamit¢ el escaso nivel cient¡fico esgrimido por Espa¤a, aun a pesar del premio Nobel obtenido por D. Santiago Ram¢n y Cajal. Ante esta situaci¢n se produce el desastre econ¢mico, la ruina social, moral y espiritual y el gran desprestigio internacional. Secrea un par?ntesis y un vac¡o en el que solo quedan los humeantesrestos de la sinraz¢n de la batalla librada y un horizonte difuso aalcanzar por aquellos sobrevivientes que quedaron entre las templadascenizas como s¡mbolo del triste recuerdo de todo lo perdido.





In these memoirs, the author wishes torecount the resurgence of a community that had been decimated andalmost annihilated as a result of a war that lasted several years, and of a post-war period whose end has yet to be seen. The Spanish CivilWar was the cause of this disaster, which undermined the low level ofscience in Spain, despite the Nobel Prize won by Santiago Ram¢n yCajal. This situation led to economic disaster, social, moral andspiritual ruin and international disrepute. A parenthesis and a vacuum were created in which only the smouldering remains of theunreasonable battle waged and a diffuse horizon to be reached by those survivors who were left among the warm ashes as a symbol of the sadmemory of all that had been lost.