 In 1939, Jean-Paul Sartre published in France a short story, "The Wall" in which he describes the last night of prisoners of war sentenced to death by shooting.Leading works of sculpture include Alberto Sánchez Pérez's "El pueblo español tiene un camino que conduce a una estrella" ("The Spanish People Have a Path that Leads to a Star"), a 12.5 m monolith constructed out of plaster representing the struggle for a socialist utopia; Julio González's "La Montserrat", an anti-war work which shares its title with a mountain near Barcelona, is created from a sheet of iron which has been hammered and welded to create a peasant mother carrying a small child in one arm and a sickle in the other.and Alexander Calder's "Fuente de mercurio" (Mercury Fountain) a protest work by the American against the Nationalist forced control of Almadén and the mercury mines there.