La España que tanto quisimos

Halfway between the essay of ideas and personal memory, Víctor Gómez Pin reflects, with courage and lucidity not devoid of nostalgia, on a Spain that is both real and imagined, although never imaginary. An idea of ??a country capable of uniting the unwavering defense of its cultural and linguistic variety with the assumption of a common Iberian legacy. An affirmative land "synonymous -in the words of the author- of existence in community, free, lucid, supportive in misfortune, moved in celebration and deeply civilized". Gómez Pin confronts without complexes or half measures some of the great debates that have yet to be closed in our history: the loss of the feeling of rootedness of many Spaniards, the struggle between languages ??and territories (with its last and terrible expression of the procés), the dark years of Francoism, the colonization of America, the Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews and Moors, the vindication of a historical Spanish thought (often contested, both outside and inside our country), the stigmatization of bullfighting, etc.