Throat Painful In Evening

Jerónimos Castilla and its suburbs

Paradoxical is that where more fervently it conflicts with the English outlying regions, find the passenger, dozed on the shelves of a bookstore, a worn copy that looks in leather spine the provocative name Castilla. The book, which sits in my library and was not in the section centralisms , or that of Regenerationism , even one that may give notice of content served as abject, as centripetal and so carpetovetónico as English several . No, the book, a 5 th edition of the Madrid Biblioteca Nueva editorial, published in 1935, flanked by the works waiting for copies of Sabino Arana Goiri, which, in addition to its ideological defeat from the Carlist to nationalism, enlightens us with brainy (and debatable) philological analysis aimed at endorsing the naive and romantic discourse of those little earlier, unable to forge a national Basque history, had recourse to the literature (fantastic, I would say) to invent a tradition (you know , legends, fables, romances and myths several) and legitimize their her difference as a nation, which is the euphemism used to name their legal traditions. So where there was no story, the illustrious Sabino, sifting through epic poems in folk records and testimony chimeric was invented. Juaristi says that in his books (do not know if already included in the index expurgatory sponsored by the Basque Nationalist Party). The issue is that with a simple gesture commercial (purchase) could relieve the embarrassing Azorín company. And I think that the bookseller, with symmetrical gesture (for sale), got rid of the stupidity English. So everybody was happy: Azorín moved his escort Sabino won place in the hardships of the siege, the bookseller pocketed his 20 euritos (5 pesetas cost in 1935), and I came thinking about what others said of Albacete and manufactures ... because who goes by Euskal Herria and do not buy a copy of Castile?

5 th edition of Castilla , Azorin. New Library. Madrid. 1935

Boulandier Library. Juan Ajuriaguerra, 52. Bilbao. The owner very kindly allowed to take this shot.