Originally published in Spanish: “El procés en Mauthausen o la república de Enric Marco”. Daniel Gascón. Letras Libres. May 6th 2019 Enric Marco is a scale model of secessionism: someone who used to present himself as a victim no matter he wasn’t one, and that appropriates the experience of the true victims. The procés* has used […]
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Il procés a Mauthausen o la repubblica d’Enric Marco
Enric Marco è il modello in scala del movimento indipendentista. È qualcuno che si presentava come una vittima senza esserlo e che si appropriava dell’esperienza delle vere vittime.
Der katalanische Unabhängigkeitskampf in Mauthausen oder Die Republik des Enric Marco
Ursprünglich auf Spanisch veröffentlicht: «El procés en Mauthausen o la república de Enric Marco». Daniel Gascón. Letras libres. 6 Mai 2019 Enric Marco dient der katalanischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung als Vorbild: Er gab sich als Opfer aus, das er nie war, und bemächtigte sich der Erfahrung der wirklichen Opfer. Die katalanische Unabhängigkeitsbewegung, der sog. Prozess, hat oft […]
La festa è finita: la fine del consenso nazionalista
Foto: Giammarco Boscaro | Unsplash Originale: «La fiesta ha terminado: el fin del consenso nacionalista». Jorge San Miguel. Letras Libres. 18 maggio 2018 La «tradizione inventata» dei 131 presidenti della Generalitat catalana deve essere collocata al suo posto preciso: insieme alle finzioni di Robert Howard o Tolkien. Ha suscitato grande scalpore un intervento del deputato Guillermo Diaz nel Congresso, […]
The party is over: the end of nationalist consensus
Photo by Giammarco Boscaro on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: «La fiesta ha terminado: el fin del consenso nacionalista». Jorge San Miguel. Letras Libres. 18th May 2018 We must place in the right place the “invented tradition” of the 131 presidents of the Catalan Generalitat: with stories like those by Robert Howard or Tolkien. There’s been some controversy […]
Instructions pour être dissident
Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash Publié à l’origine en espagnol: “‘Instrucciones para ser disidente”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres 25 avril 2018 En Catalogne, il y a une sorte de personnage qui se targue d’aller à contre-courant mais qui, en réalité, ne fait que défendre le statu quo nationaliste. Le jour de Sant Jordi [saint patron de la Catalogne], l’ancien […]
Coups, «pronunciamentos» and cheap labels
Photo by Daniel von Appen on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. “Golpes, pronunciamientos y etiquetas fáciles”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. 2nd May 2018 A few weeks ago, the historian Santos Juliá wrote an op-ed in El País entitled “Subduing the State”, where he says that the Unilateral Declaration of Independence proclaimed by the Catalan Parliament on […]
Instructions to become a dissident
Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish. “‘Instrucciones para ser disidente”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres 25th April 2018 On the day of Saint George, former Podem regional representative Albano Dante Fachín, who is very close to secessionist postulates (he buys the whole discourse but insists he is not a secessionist), wrote a letter that read: “Saint […]
Le discours après le « procés »
Photo by Johannes Schwaerzler on Unsplash Publié à l’origine en espagnol: “‘El relato tras el procés”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. 4 Avril 2018 La négociation est nécessaire pour mettre fin au procès mais ne peut pas se faire sur la base de faux discours Il existe une célèbre photo du Parlement régional de Valence où […]
The Narrative Behind the Procés
Photo by Johannes Schwaerzler on Unsplash Originally published in Spanish: “El Relato tras el Procés”. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. 4th April 2018 There’s a famous picture of the Valencian Parliament where all PP politicians indicted or convicted in the Gürtel corruption case are marked with circles. A similar exercise could be performed if political leaders […]