How to Face Up to the History of Your Own Family?

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Yash i told you that past is a dimension of the present, without which the present is mutilated. We all have also, from a personal point of view, we have also a bad parentage and a good heretage. And this heritage lives with us, because past lives in present. I wanted to understand in my most personal book, why the hero of my family was a fatiost,. Why he went to the war, why he became a warrior... He died in combat in the worst battle of the history of spain at the end of the civil war.

Javier Cercas is one of Spain’s most distinguished novelists and a columnist at El País. His books, like Soldiers of Salamis and The Anatomy of a Moment, explore the history of modern Spain and the role of historical memory in contemporary life.

In this week’s conversation, Javier Cercas and Yascha Mounk discuss Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy, the movement for Catalonian secession, and how countries should approach their often complicated pasts.

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