“You should have been through a war,” the grandparents would reply whenever someone complained. They said it more as a reminder and a warning than as a wish or a curse. In the sentence there was memory and acceptance that, if it had happened once, it could happen again. From Hamburg to Saidí, from the diaries and photos of Germany in World War II to the witnesses of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Inner World captures the experience of the Aragon Front of the Orwells, Hemingway, Sales, Sender and Weil, the gaze of photographers and dietitians of the documents found in Berlin, the conversations with family and friends who have stayed or who have fled Russia and Ukraine. Francesc Serés explores the human condition through the personal experience of a familiar and distant war, a European history.

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