Javier Marías and the Meaning of Memory
It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.
It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.
The Catalan government does nothing to investigate hundreds of corpses belonging to Civil War era victims of the Popular Front.
Apart from deciding who is eligible for financial compensation, the Law of Historical Memory from 2007 has been used to define how history is taught. Its trajectory will be accelerated with the Law of Democratic Memory of 2022.
Rejecting the Franco-era state to this degree, however, implies rejecting the political reform that led to the current democratic constitution. Indeed, some analysts suspect this is partly the law’s intent.
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