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by Jeremy Treglown


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An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain
True, false, or both? Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy. Pedro Almodvar is only the most recent in a line of great antiestablishment film directors who have worked continuously in Spain since the 1930s. As early as 1943, former Republicans and Nationalists were collaborating in Spain to promote the visual arts, irrespective of the artists' political views. Censorship can benefit literature. Memory is not the same thing as history. Inside Spain as well as outside, many believe--wrongly--that under Franco's fascist dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or shown. In his groundbreaking new book, Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, Jeremy Treglown argues that oversimplifications like these of a complicated, ambiguous actuality have contributed to a separate falsehood: that there was and continues to be a national pact to forget the evils for which Franco's side (and, according to this version, his side alone) was responsible.
The myth that truthfulness was impossible inside Franco's Spain may explain why foreign narratives (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia) have seemed more credible than Spanish ones. Yet La Guerra de Espaa was, as its Spanish name asserts, Spain's own war, and in recent years the country has begun to make a more public attempt to "reclaim" its modern history of fascism. How it is doing so, and the role played in the process by notions of historical memory, are among the subjects of this wide-ranging and challenging book.
Franco's Crypt reveals that despite state censorship, events of the time were vividly recorded. Treglown looks at what's actually there--monuments, paintings, public works, novels, movies, video games--and considers, in a captivating narrative, the totality of what it shows. The result is a much-needed reexamination of a history we only thought we knew.

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  • Title Franco's Crypt
  • Author Jeremy Treglown
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, NY
  • Date 2014-08-12
  • ISBN 9780374534653 / 0374534659
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.68 x 5.79 x 0.71 in (22.05 x 14.71 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Spanish
  • Library of Congress subjects Spain - History - 1939-1975, Spain - Intellectual life - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012048086
  • Dewey Decimal Code 946.08

About the author

Jeremy Treglown is a British writer and critic who spends part of every year in Spain and has written about the country for Granta and other magazines. His previous books include biographies of Roald Dahl, Henry Green (which won the Dictionary of Literary Biography Award), and V. S. Pritchett (which was short-listed for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize). Formerly the editor of The Times Literary Supplement and a fellow of the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, 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.
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