Author: Julián Casanova.
This afternoon at 7 pm, the Instituto Cervantes de Madrid (calle Barquillo, 4) presents the book Franco, by historian Julián Casanova, in a meeting with the author.
The volume details a biography of Francisco Franco aimed at the current public, in order to better understand a key figure for the history of the twentieth century in Spain. A biography essential to bring the reader of the 21st century one of the central figures of Spanish history.
Nobody has influenced the contemporary history of Spain as much as Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975). Yet, despite his omnipresence, the dictator remains an unknown person, hidden behind a tangle of apriorisms and clichés, manichaeism and lies. Professor Julián Casanova, the best historian of his generation and the greatest expert on the period, offers an informed and revealing biography about the person and character who determined the destinies of Spain for four decades.
Fifty years after his death, Julian Casanova reveals aspects unknown to his contemporaries and draws the definitive portrait of the dictator for the new generations. For this, he has researched dozens of testimonies, books and documents that, with the help of a whole academic and research career, allow him an approach as precise and novel as relevant and suggestive.
Franco began the assault on power with a military uprising and got it by blood and fire in a civil war. Until then, he had been one more among his media-savvy brothers, among the ruthless Africanists and among the rising stars tempted by the counter-revolution. The assumption of absolute power profoundly changed both his personality and his external projection and his inner circle. Despite not having a consolidated ideological or programmatic body and its scarce charisma, its legacy is part of our more recent past. Today, with this masterful account, the biographical reconstruction is complete.
The event will be presented by the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero. Julián Casanova, author of the book and professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza, and Raquel Reguera, editor of Editorial Crítica will participate.
Entry is restricted, please reserve your seat at this link. The presentation can be followed by YouTube at this link.
Pages: 528
Publisher: Crítica
Binding: Hard cover
ISBN: 9788491997160
RPP: 21,75 euros
