spitfire wrote:
> Spanish Euthanasia
>
>
> "Is Spanish Persecuted?" double pages the demagogically Jacobin El
> Pais. Madrid centralism always has such worries about language, but
> you don't have to go further back than one generation to find real
> persecution, not a lie. After the defeat of his ally Hitler Franco had
> no choice but to apply euthanasia to Catalan without the Gestapo or
> the option of a Catalan Auschwitz the Caudillo wanted of the Führer as
> his price for entering the war. The man of letters Jordi Amat has
> written the history of the euthanasia and the poetic fight to make
> Spanish intellectuals denounce the cultural genocide. The poets
> succeeded partially and partially we remain subject to daily hate the
> Jews of the Spanish Empire, very much alive speaking Catalan that was
> supposed to have died from Spanish euthanasia.
>
> "Few books will be as revealing to know without masks what
> contem****ary Catalonia has been" writes Jordi Amat in El Periodico on
> "Such an Unfortunate Country," my memoir of Josep Verges Matas,
> publisher of Destino and Josep Pla. When I tell him I am commenting in
> Diari de Girona his "The Voices of Dialogue. Poetry and Politics in
> the Half Century" (Peninsula) the grandson of Manuel Amat, long-time
> collaborator of my father, he answers: "I am so interested that you
> look at the book because I did a good part of the reconstruction of
> those years thanks to Destino tracing the polemics the magazine awoke
> in the small world of Catalan nationalism in exile or in the
> catacombs."
>
> Poet Carles Riba writes from his external exile to internally exiled
> Dionisio Ridruejo who has broken with Spanish nationalist fascism: "I
> don't see our current problems and baiting of Catalan writers as
> anything different from this incoherent but systematic Inquisitorial
> oppression to which thinking and its expression are subject to in
> Spain." The dialogue could not be more unequal, between the racist
> dictator****p that bans Catalan and the poet who prints 75 copies (!)
> of his fundamental "Elegies of Bierville."
>
> Dionisio Ridruejo distances himself from Spanish euthanasia and will
> go as far as translating "The Grey Diary," Pla's equally fundamental
> work, because he is well aware of what Catalans represent in Spain:
> "We have placed all our hopes in this capacity to adapt to the Iberian
> everything European which Catalonia represents for us. What a Spaniard
> wants and expects from you is that you keep being the open door, the
> street that leads to freedom. The piece of Europe that Spaniards have
> lies between the Ebro and the Pyrenees." Destino led Catalan freedom:
> "All are more or less of a liberal origin or tendency. Pla, the most
> penetrating and influential spirit in and within the Catalan spirit."
> The official policy was nothing like this. Franco's brother in law,
> Carthaginian Serrano Suñer, auscultated Barcelona where he lived: "A
> morally and politically sick population given all the treatment the
> illness requires." Police minister of the Spanish Gestapo, Camilo
> Alonso Vega, and a regime "liberal": "In future there will be nothing
> but uniformity."
>
> Fascism wanted to make Catalonia Spanish while Ridruejo sought to make
> Spain Catalan. Valencian intellectual of the people Joan Fuster said
> of him. "He spoke like a Catalan nationalist would have. Or like a
> Spaniard who thinks with his head rather than with his feet as usually
> happens." Both Spanish ideologies, the despotic and the European,
> failed and we are where we were with Catalans hated as always by
> Spanish nationalists. Jordi Amat laments disenchanted: "The basic
> question, after the transition to democracy and the establishment of
> the State of the Autonomies is once again today the vertebration of
> Spain." The question which Madrid asks every day because Spanish
> euthanasia is very much alive.
>
>
> Josep C. Vergés
Ès superficial o no ès molt polit. L'anglès té termes com Catalan,
Catalonian, Spaniard, Spanish, Castilian i altres.
El mot "Spaniard" no el rebé del llatin, sembla que prové del Euskera,
"Espainiar"
També confon Catalan i Catalonian, ja que no empra Catalonian, que la
traduction seria "catalonès".
Ara els "Spanish" són els sudakas, o sudamericans i los confon amb els
****tuguesos (gallegs) i castellans.
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