Vietnamitas contra Franco

The clandestine written culture during the Franco Dictatorship was a hidden and hidden world. Repository of the power of the written word and the force of the forbidden, the underground fueled extraordinary creative processes, in extreme situations, with imagination, skill and constant challenges through literature and an art of agitation, in all its expressive forms. Banned books, small books with false covers, clandestine printed newspapers and those made by hand in prisons, bulletins, cut-up letters, forged documents, coded messages, poems, stickers and thousands of flyers and leaflets Printed on precarious home-made machines called "Vietnamese", they formed the wide repertoire of clandestine letters, which were also turned into graffiti, posters, engravings, banners or murals of dissident art. The clandestines had double lives, which ran through hidden spaces and secret activities, in response to persecution by the State that won the civil war, which, relentlessly, planned the elimination of its adversaries and the control of its dissidents. They moved underground based on their capacity for resistance, avoiding repressive procedures with a battle of ink. The "Vietnamese" symbolized a tenacious gesture of permanent rebellion and became the emblem of the agitation and the fight against the Dictatorship. They were the "Vietnamese against Franco". This book rescues a world silenced and until now lost in the clandestinity of History.