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For the first time in his life, he had a blank slate. He could reinvent himself, become something more. His life was the canvas now, empty and begging for lines and color, direction and depth.
“the law seeks, as it were, an end in symbolism, but does not offer any means of allowing citizens to address what was actually done to whom, by whom and why.”
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
“an increasing number of court cases in which relatives of deceased perpetrators brought ideologically charged cases for defamation against historians and journalists who had examined instances of Francoist crime,”
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
“a tendency uncritically to accept the prevailing “order”, and to view the evidence of financial corruption and political clientelism as inalterable,”
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
“With the triumph of the Popular Party on 20 November 2011 in a general election dominated by the debt crisis and nearly five million unemployed, desmemoria is likely now to be in the ascendant.”
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
“That state has gone, but its narrative enthralls those deaths still today. It is for this reason that the Francoist dead and the Republican dead are still not, nor ever were in the 1980s and 1990s, similar quantities to be “remembered and named”.”
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
― The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
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