Mafalda, Susanita and me

By Susana Moscatel

This Wednesday the documentary series of the great Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, Quino, premieres on Disney+ and it is a delight of reflections in which even Pope Francis suddenly participates. I have already seen it and talked with its director, Lorena Muñoz, and I feel that I have just made a new reading of the great characters of Mafalda, but of the world itself that we inhabit, share and in which we have had so many personal experiences from the universe he created.

I share with you some of them. The ones that moved me. The ones that made me remember who I was the first time I read Mafalda at the same age as the character. Our six years old. And most of all, revelations that today make more sense than ever in our world today. This despite the fact that it was 58 years ago when Mafalda was born (although she will always have those six years).