Photo by Cassi Josh on Unsplash Originale: “Agravio inventado y herida luminosa”. Ignacio Vidal-Folch. Crónica global. 26.06.2018 Nel corso degli anni, i chierici e i poeti del nazionalismo hanno paragonato la società catalana a ogni sorta di cose strane: una colonia oppressa; Rosa Parks e la sua sfida al razzismo statunitense; Nelson Mandela contro l’apartheid; Ulisse, in viaggio verso […]
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Imaginary grievances and glowing wounds
Photo by Cassi Josh on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: «Agravio inventado y herida luminosa». Ignacio Vidal-Folch. Crónica global. 26th July 2018 Throughout the years, nationalist clerics and poets have compared Catalan society to all sorts of things: to an oppressed colony; to Rosa Parks challenging American racism; to Nelson Mandela combating apartheid; to Ulysses, sailing towards Ithaca; […]
The Scapegoats
Originally published in Spanish. Ignacio Vidal-Folch. Crónica Global. In this sinister movie which is the Catalan process (from which, judging by the first cataclysmic consequences, with the businesses leaving Catalonia for Madrid, Valencia, Aragon or wherever, with the elders panicking for losing their pensions, with the emptying of banks boxes, and even with the possibility […]
I capri espiatori
Originale: “Los chivos expiatorios”. Ignacio Vidal-Folch. Crónica Global In questo film infausto che è il prusés [il processo indipendentista catalano, NdT] (da cui, alla luce delle prime conseguenze catastrofiche, con la fuga delle aziende dalla Catalogna verso Madrid, Valencia, Aragona o altrove, con il terrore degli anziani di rimanere senza pensione, con il prosciugamento delle casse delle banche, addirittura […]
The Revolution of the Rich
Originally published in Spanish. Ignacio Vidal-Folch. The Objective While we are busy with our trifles, real life goes past. Then, as the years go by, we look back and say: “How could we be so thoughtless! How could we be so blind!” Now, while Galicia and Portugal burst into flames, deepening the ecological disaster and […]