This book studies texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who could be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig; controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto Cardin; and experimental film directors José Maria Nunes, Jacinto Esteva-Grewe and Joaquin Jordà, members of the short-lived movement known as ‘the Barcelona School’. Drawing on some of the most influential th ... More

This book studies texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who could be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig; controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto Cardin; and experimental film directors José Maria Nunes, Jacinto Esteva-Grewe and Joaquin Jordà, members of the short-lived movement known as ‘the Barcelona School’. Drawing on some of the most influential theorists and philosophers of our time, the book argues for a radical re-reading of a complex period in Spanish history, which is characterized by amnesia in relation to a painful past and ideological conflict within an unsettling present. It argues that the Transition emerges as the great ‘evental site’ of modern Spain, from which radically new ways of thinking can still emerge.