Marcher dans tes pas de Léonor de Récondo

Our identities are built in the footsteps of those who came before us, between inherited silences and stories to be reinvented. With this show, literature and music come together to bring to life an intimate and collective memory, shaped by exile and transmission. How does one live with an identity shaped by a history that precedes us and continues to run through us?

In this musical reading, Léonor de Récondo lends her voice and violin to the story of Enriqueta, her grandmother, who was forced to flee the family home in Irun on 18 August 1936, threatened by Franco's forces.

Within minutes, everything tips over: childhood, the house, everyday gestures, a rice pudding left forever on the kitchen table. Nearly ninety years later, this suspended image becomes the starting point for a sensitive inquiry into exile, filiation and identity.

Between prose and poetry, music and silence, the narrative weaves together childhood memories, fragmentary archives and the imaginary of the novel.

The question of Spanish nationality, once again made available to the descendants of Republican exiles, runs through the text like an intimate questioning: what does it mean to reclaim a lost identity?

The sound of the violin accompanies this slow march towards the ghosts, giving flesh to the absent and depth to ordinary gestures. Text: Marcher dans tes pas (Éditions L'Iconoclaste, 2025)