Rafael Narbona taught philosophy at secondary level until his recent retirement due to illness. He is a literary critic on El Cultural and El Mundo and also writes for such publications as Revista de Letras and El Imparcial and other media (he has contributed to Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos and Quimera) and regularly posts a blog of literary criticism and political reflections which is widely distributed throughout the Web, with thousands of followers. Miedo de ser dos is his first novel, but a book of short stories set in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War is forthcoming from the same publishing house.