Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936
by Jeremy Treglown
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Memory is not the same thing as history. Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe-- wrongly-- that under Franco's dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. Treglown argues that in recent years the country has begun to make a more public attempt to "reclaim" its modern history, and reveals that despite state censorship, events of the time were vividly recorded. The result is a much-needed reexamination of a history we only thought we knew.Tags
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Well written. A comprehensive, clear and fair account of the Spanish arts between the Civil War and the "Transition".
Excellent. Fascinating and well-written
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Jeremy Treglown is a British writer and critic who spends part of every year in Spain. His previous books include biographies of Henry Green (which won the Dictionary of Literary Biography Award) and V. S. Pritchett (which was short-listed for the Whit-bread Biography Award and the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize). Formerly the editor of The Times show more Literary Supplement, he has taught at Oxford. University College London, Princeton, and the University of Warwick, and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. show less
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- People/Characters
- Francisco Franco
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Art & Design, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 946.08 — History & geography History of Europe Spain & Portugal Spain Second Republic; Dictatorship; Juan Carlos I; Felipe VI 1931-
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- DP270 .T74 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Spain – Portugal History of Spain History By period Modern Spain, 1479/1516- 20th century. 1886- 1939-1975
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- English, Spanish
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