Spain
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Elisa Victoria on child narrators, comics, and post-Franco Spain. Translated by Charlotte Whittle.
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Your private self is other: you don’t have the intellectual capacity to keep track of it all. Some days you give away more about yourself than you had intended to: you’re untidy, indecently exposed. Sometimes others seem to know more about you than you do.
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‘I’m not interested in history itself. I’m interested in the past that has not passed.’
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Galician poet, writer and journalist Manuel Rivas recalls stories from his childhood under Franco’s rule. His latest novel, The Low Voices (Harvill Secker), is published this month.
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