Novel Review: Marcial's Secret

Interpreting life through cinema, from the films that have been part of our personal or family history, is what Jorge Fernández Díaz does in El secreto de Marcial, a novel that has won the Nadal prize in 2025. And, well thought out, for those of us who have a certain fondness for this art — and even those who do not, but who have sometimes sat in a cinema room or in front of the television to get carried away by a filmed story — we must recogniz…