El florido pensil : Memoria de la escuela nacionalcatólica

"Drawing on textbooks from that era and their unforgettable illustrations, Andrés Sopeña evokes, with irresistible grace and humor, everyday school life, local radio, Roberto Alcázar comics, Thursday night movies with Franco inaugurating dams and John Wayne killing Indians... In short, everything that made us 'different' and that we should learn to rid ourselves of if we aspire to be 'normal.' And a good place to start is laughing at them." Today, thirty-two years after the first edition of this now-classic work, that vast charade of emptiness and ignorance contained within its pages, that imperialist and jingoistic rhetoric, that mendacious rewriting of history, and that delirious national Catholicism that contributed to forging a false personal and collective identity, which manifests itself daily in a thousand different ways, its will to return and seize control of our souls and our way of life until it manages to transform the Iberian Peninsula into an immense sheepfold... Thirty-two years is nothing, certainly.