Jeremy Treglown: Franco's Crypt | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781784701154 | Franco's Crypt | Jeremy Treglown | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2015

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Beschreibung

History is written by the victors. It's a cliché but a reliable one - except in the case of the Spanish Civil War. Many believe - wrongly as it turns out - that under Franco's dictatorship nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or created. And this myth reinforces another: that there is a national pact to forget what really happened. In the four decades since Franco's death foreign narratives - For Whom the Bell Tolls Casablanca Homage to Catalonia - still have greater credibility than Spanish ones. Yet La Guerra de España was as its name asserts Spain's own war and in recent years the country has begun to reclaim this crucial aspect of its history.

In a compelling investigation of collective memory Jeremy Treglown talks to the descendants of men and women killed during the civil war and ensuing dictatorship and stands on a hillside with them as remains are excavated; he attends a Sunday service in the basilica dedicated to Franco's memory examines monuments paintings novels films computer games and finds that despite state censorship creativity under Franco was burgeoning and events of the time were in fact vividly recorded.

In this groundbreaking and captivating new book Jeremy Treglown examines the very tenet of our cultural identity: how we remember. Franco's Crypt is a much-needed re-examination of a history we only thought we knew.

Über den Autor

Jeremy Treglown is a 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 (Dictionary of Literary Biography Award), and V. S. Pritchett (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Biography; Duff Cooper Prize for Literature). A former editor of The Times Literary Supplement, he has taught at Oxford, University College London, Oxford, Princeton and Warwick, and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in London.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781784701154
ISBN-10:	1784701157
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Treglown, Jeremy
Hersteller:	Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Jeremy Treglown
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.03.2015
Gewicht:	0,588 kg

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