There are strange days to work as a prestigious Hispanicist. And despite this, guys like Paul Preston, Ian Gibson or Henry Kamen insist on continuing to focus on a story that, if it were for other wills bent on lies, black legend or ethnocentric interest, would end up being completely disrupted. ...
As is often said between the jocular and the true, next to the dictionary meaning of Hispanism should appear the face of Paul Preston. Because, as a historian (and precisely with greater zeal in this chronic aspect of the Hispanic), this English author has investigated and finally collected and disseminated ...
Every nation has that diffuse roots as a mixture of peoples on many occasions in conflict. Spain was not going to be an exception and its conformation emanates from unsuspected alliances, vagaries of fate and proximity, especially that closeness that, beyond the delirious dreams wet with separatism ...
For a writer of historical fictions, where fiction outweighs the informativeness of history, it is impossible to abstract from civil wars as a setting and argument. Because in that museum of horrors that is every fratricidal confrontation, the most transcendent intrahistory ends up emerging, the flashes of ...
History awaits us there, objective in its facts and subjective in its narrators. The problem is when these two prisms come into clear conflict, when subjectivity has another intention that does not fit in the light of the facts. Nationalisms feed on lies counted 100 times and ...
Everything I know about the children of Russia comes from what a neighbor once told me. He was one of those kids who came from the Spanish Republican side to the Soviet Union. But what my neighbor told me one day as a simple anecodtha, I know ...