Franco's Crypt Contributor(s): Treglown, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374534659 ISBN-13: 9780374534653 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 946.08 |
LCCN: 2012048086 |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.79" W x 8.68" (0.89 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Spanish - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's Spain Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy. Pedro Almod var 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Treglown, Jeremy: - 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 (Dictionary of Literary Biography Award), and V. S. Pritchett (short-listed for the Whitbread Award for Biography; Duff Cooper Prize for Literature). A former editor of The Times Literary Supplement and a Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, he has taught at Oxford, University College London, Princeton, and Warwick, and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Treglown lives in London. |