República encantada / Enchanted Republic
Non-fiction , 2021
Tusquets
Pages: 336
An essential essay on the roots of intolerance and its repercussions in current politics.
The author explores with immense lucidity various controversial aspects of Spanish historiography: the denial of the Muslim past, the consequences of the expulsion of Jews and Moriscos from Spain, the imposition of a retrogressive religious orthodoxy, the difficulties tolerance has faced in prospering in Spain, the weak roots of authentic liberalism, and the everlasting persecution of the dissident for the sake of a uniformity almost always imposed by force. All of this serves to establish an illuminating diagnosis of the country's complex social and political reality in the present day.