VILLALTA LUNA, Alfonso M. (2022). Demonios de papel. Diarios desde un archivo de la represión franquista
DEMONIOS DE PAPEL
Diarios desde un archivo de la represión franquista
Demonios de Papel is a journey into the depths of an archive of Franco’s repression. The tour, which begins in its corridors and storerooms, will take us to the multiple scenarios to which the documents it holds take us. Opening each of the boxes containing the summary trials of the dictatorship – papers that marked the end of the lives of thousands of people – takes us into a world that had remained hidden until now and that urges us with questions: can a military archive keep the soul of Franco’s dictatorship, can it safeguard and even protect the essence of Francoism, what happens when the doors that give access to the centre of the dictatorship are opened?
This book describes and analyses the complex relationship that every archive has with memory, with constant tensions between the memory it keeps and the oblivion it imposes. The book explores the politics of memory imposed in the moments of transition between dictatorship and democracy up to the present. From here it explores the ways in which debates about history, memory and justice have been reactivated. In conclusion, in this work the reader will be immersed in the complex management of these roles, accompanied by reflections on how societies forget and remember a traumatic past.
