Breve historia de Cervantes

En agosto de 1914, ante el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el rey Alfonso XIII declaró fuera de la ley a todo aquel que realizara abiertamente proselitismo en favor de alguno de los bandos contendientes. Sin embargo, la medida fue considerablemente ineficaz, puesto que la opinión pública se fracturó en diversas corrientes que llenaron de tensión el espacio público español.

En los últimos años se ha creado una imagen idílica, pero un tanto de cartón piedra, de la República. El caso de Azaña es particularmente revelador. Sometido a una especie de beatificación laica, que difícilmente le hubiera agradado, la publicación de sus diarios en México provocó un embarazoso silencio, porque derrumbaban una cierta mitología republicana. No obstante, los viejos tópicos han revivido a fuerza de silenciar testimonios o de someterlos a malabarismos interpretativos. Este libro, al basarse en gran medida en el contraste de los testimonios de los dirigentes...

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