The writer and professor of contemporary history, Julián Casanova, He visits us to tell us about his latest essay entitled "Franco" (Ed. Criticism,2025). An essential biography to bring one of the central figures of Spanish history closer to the 21st century. ” Will present the professor and essayist Justo Serna.
About the book:
No one has conditioned both the contemporary history of Spain and Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975). However and despite its omnipresence - of the coins to the classrooms, from the node to the public debate—, The dictator is still a stranger, hidden after a tangle of apriorisms and topics, of maniqueism and lies. Professor Julián Casanova, The best historian of his generation and the top specialist on the period, It offers us an informed and revealing biography about the person and the character that determined the destinations of Spain for four decades.
Fifty years after his death, Julián Casanova reveals unknown aspects for his contemporaries and trace, For new generations, The definitive portrait of the dictator for this has investigated dozens of testimonies, books and documents that, With the grounds for an entire academic and research career, They allow an approximation as precise and novel as relevant and suggestive.
Franco began the assault on power with a military uprising and achieved it to blood and fire in a civil war. Until then, It had been one more among his media brothers, Among the ruthless Africanists and among the ascending stars tempted by the counterrevolution. The assumption of absolute power deeply modified both its personality and its external projection and its intimate circle. Despite not having a consolidated ideological or programmatic body and its little charisma, Your legacy is part of our most recent past. Hoy, With this master story, Biographical reconstruction is complete.
