Franco's Crypt
Subtitle: Spanish culture and memory since 1936
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780374108427
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Bad memory; title: Part one : Sites and sights.; title: Whose graves?; title: The alligator's dams; title: Franco's crypts : monuments, museums, commemorations; title: Art's abstractions; title: Part two : Stories and histories.; title: History's wars; title: Fiction's memories (1) : first-generation novels of the Spanish War and postwar; title: Franco's films; title: Fiction's memories (2) : moving on; title: Fiction's memories (3) : the children's and grandchildren's stories; title: Postscript