TV-3 has just premiered a penultimate exercise in ‘conyeta nostrada’, this time using the word ‘literature’ as a hook pretext (‘Una història de laliteratura’). presents it Elisenda Pineda assisted by the peculiar occurrences of Godai Garciaand from time to time you hear the orphan of some arpeggio that springs from a white piano that the singer-songwriter caresses Edward General.
my admired emma riverola Y Josep Maria Fonalleras They have already warned here, in EL PERIÓDICO, that it is not a program about literature or history, rather an attempt to be funny based on not having read anything. Let me expand on it. Let’s say Eugeni d’Ors, the first author they have ‘tried’. They have dedicated this biographical note to him: «Writer, philosopher and fascist. He went to Madrid denying Catalonia and the language; nothing, by the way, that all the Catalans who go to Madrid don’t do”, then adding brushstrokes on his thought (“I wanted a strong Catalonia, within Spain!”) and warnings about ‘noucentisme’ (“Order, classical values, kill union activists, hunt witches and burn them”).
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In other words, a semblance of Xenius –born in Barcelona and died in Vilanova i la Geltrú– as a facade, a ‘traitor’, a ‘bad català’, as they say in the current ‘nostrada’ terminology. Man, the fascistic outbursts of D’Orsian thought have been very well studied by historians such as Vicente Cacho Viu (Cream Quaderns) and more recently by Andrew Navarre (Tusquets). They both got close to D’Ors with analytical neatness, studying it. Joseph Plan, in his ‘Quadern gris’, he dedicates a semblance to it entitled ‘La defenestració’, lamenting it despite not being an author that pleases him. An author who, still immersed in totalitarianism, has written in his ‘Glosari’ thoughts as beautiful as “The country can trust more a critic who works, than a vociferous patriot.” After his death, to D’Ors artists like Clarà, Guinovart, Miró, Tàpies…
oh! It is not only ignorance that this program gives off. Above all, it is the need for TV-3’s ‘teranyina’ not to decline. That network, dense, of funny unidirectional on request. I’m going to go to Turó Park this afternoon to see if the statue of ‘La ben plantada’ is still there. Perhaps a ‘escamot’ of ‘bons catalans’ have already destroyed it with hammer blows.