Here is some poetry of an actual Fascist, very circumspect. Then there is noucentisme, Eugeni d’Ors’ movement, which is really quite strange, and there had been regenerationism as well. I have just read a fairly current Spanish novel I believe to be about memory but think is about evasion. It has touches of Vargas Llosa, Borges and at the end Cortázar or perhaps Joyce in a great rush of emotion when humanity is saved, yes I will yes. The author is not very good looking and smokes endlessly in a great state of nerves.
The book is interesting on conservative movements in Spain and conservative writers. The 1936-1939 civil war looks worse every year, and I have learned that thousands of Spanish refugees died at Mauthausen, a really bad KZ. Now there is an adventure tourism company that will take you in 4×4 vehicles to visit the terrain of the Battle of the Ebro. Here is a related song by the Lincoln Brigade, and here is the Altavoz del Frente, a whole almanac of songs.
A really good cultural studies course could be given on this war although I would rather go back and examine the discourses of regenerationism, noucentisme, the original Falange, and more. Franquismo does live on and so does Francoist censorship, and I have heard that companies like ProSegur (interestingly founded in 1976) have Francoist connections.
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My uncle was deployed to Germany in the war and he was never quite right after that. Having looked at archival footage on the liberation of Mauthausen in 1945 I am quite curious to know what he saw. I did not have time for a serious search, but I readily discovered his family’s plantation. And every time I look at footage of the 1939-1945 war I am amazed at how many horses and horse-carts there are.
Axé.
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