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The law of historical forgetting

Two municipal actions covered in Article 15 of Law 52/2007 , December 26, better known as Law of historical memory, have discovered the absurdity of it. Its purpose is overridden by the text of the law, which calls for a credible forget our history. The first of these acts took place in July this year. Badajoz City Council sent a worker with hammer and chisel to remove the street sign dedicated to Margarita Nelken. The commotion was considerable armed. The second took place a few days ago. Seville City Council has banned a conference on discrete Agustín de Foxa. Aquilino Duque, who was banned lecturer, has written an excellent blog entry on the subject.

Yesterday also we read in The world an article about this censorship. Juan Manuel Bonet, Jordi García Andrés Trapiello and give their opinion. Because you can not find in digital editing, I transcribe here.

Sunday, October 11, 2009. Year XXI. Number: 7237.

70 years later, what do we do with Agustín de Foxa? EVA DIAZ PÉREZ


Sevilla

"Zambra and stir in the china shop of the Ateneo ...». So begins Madrid, Czech cutting, the delirious, satirical, tragic and incendiary novel the author wrote in 1938 Agustín de Foxa Falangist Armendariz-Marquis and Count de Foxa-dipping his pen in the orgy of hatred and bloodshed of the War Civil. This "uproar in the china shop" of today is that the author has brought 50 years after his death as a result of the decision Sevilla City Council to suspend a scheduled event to remember his work. The arguments of the delegate for Citizen Participation, Josefa Medrano (IU), to prohibit the tribute were "respect for the historical memory" and the possibility that "could become an act of advocacy of Franco." Andrés

Trapiello, Jordi Gracia and Juan Manuel Bonet, three authors have thoroughly studied the literature of the period and the conflict between ideology and creation, involved in the debate to provide the necessary reflection and wisdom to the subject.

censorship. "It seems incredible that a municipality is engaged in the literary police. Even if Foxá was an ideologue deserves to be studied. But this is a great writer, "says Juan Manuel Bonet, art critic and author of the classic avant-garde
Dictionary. "Seventy years after the end of the war, the history of literature must not make the council sectarian, but historians and writers," he says, annoyed by the decision of any one author by extra-literary reasons. Similarly

Andrés Trapiello view: "It is a decision born of ignorance and totalitarianism of a person who does not know what he's talking."

LITERATURE AND CREATION. Trapiello knows what he speaks as the author of an essay The arms and letters, which contributed to the debate and the peace of English literature by reviewing the conflicting relations between intellectuals of both sides-
with the political radicalization that occurred during the Civil War. The book was published in 1994, was reissued in 2001 and revised in two months, will be republished in an expanded version. The controversy created Foxá Case confirms that the conflict between arms and letters is still valid. "The Civil War disrupted people who went mad in that bloody rampage, even people who were wise before the war and returned to be later. And this is repeated with writers from both sides, "he admits.

Juan Manuel Bonet también coincide en la dudosa razón ética de centrar la valoración artística en buenos o malos: «Si hacemos la vista gorda sobre los poemas de Alberti a Stalin o sobre las infamias de Bergamín contra el POUM de Andrés Nin. ¿Por qué seguimos negando que el franquismo también contó con grandes escritores?»

EL CUERPO DEL DELITO. La simplificación del cliché sobre Foxá como «apólogo del franquismo» para decidir silenciarlo ha sido otro de los argumentos polémicos. Jordi Gracia es el biógrafo de Dionisio Ridruejo, compañero de afinidades políticas de Foxá hasta que se convirtió en demócrata y, por lo tanto, dissident Franco. Gracia, who won the Essay Award 2004 by the fundamental Anagrama essay silent resistance. Fascism and culture in Spain, speaks of "thoughtless blunder." "On the other hand, if it is reflexive, it is worse: it does the least harm to the victimized Foxá but ridiculous. Had been fascist aristocrat, cynical and humorous, as well as a good writer, and now receives the gift of being a victim. " Gracia, one of the great historians of English intellectual life during the Franco regime, says Foxá "was played by a conservative net over fascism founded rhetorical and decorative. Of course, censorship is a posthumous gift a misguided left has done to Foxá. "

Trapiello agrees criticize ideological conviction judgments. "If we talk of war literature, war poems Foxá has not detract from the texts written by then the Communists José Herrera Peter, Pedro Garfias, or the same Rafael Alberti."

REMEMBRANCE. The "respect for the Law of Historical Memory" has been one of the reasons to try to prevent the act. Trapiello reflects on the spirit that should prevail when faced with the uncomfortable past. "Historical memory is to return to the past without figures. With the view that historical memory "Historical memory" could not be held half of literary events held in this country. In the Civil War there were other artists who were identified at some point with Stalinism. "

Trapiello warns about the dangers of decisions like this: "It is nonsense that someone can decide what is good and what is bad. Did not happen so, so ridiculous, from the father Ladrón de Guevara, the Jesuit author of novels good and bad novelists. People have a right to be spoken on both sides, to form an opinion of their own, away, if possible, the fanaticism of those who seem to want to win the Civil War, in a sense, missed it a lot. " Jordi Gracia

wary about the controversial use of historical memory. "It was a nonsense as an accidental. A fetish is sometimes used of historical memory to attack or defend, when all reasonable issues of cultural history is to disseminate critical. "