It’s as if he’d never existed
Anthony Pagden, 18 July 1985
The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy
by David Gilmour.
Quartet, 306 pp., £12.95, March 1985,9780704324619 Show More
by David Gilmour.
Quartet, 306 pp., £12.95, March 1985,
“... As Franco lay dying in the winter of 1975 wild conjectures circulated in Madrid as to what would happen when the old dictator who had already been twice rescued from what had looked like certain death, but who could not hope to escape a third time, finally departed. As in most societies where all but the most anodyne political debate has been rigorously forbidden and the only available political vocabularies have been emptied of any possible meaning, these conjectures often took the form of jokes ... ”