David Uclés withdraws from an occasion in regards to the Civil War as a result of presence of José María Aznar and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros | Culture | EUROtoday

The author David Uclés has introduced in a video for social networks that he is not going to take part within the occasion 1936: The warfare all of us misplacedcoordinated by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Jesús Vigorra, inside the Letras en Sevilla pageant, which is well known from February 2 to five within the Andalusian capital.

The purpose is the presence on the identical poster of the previous president of the federal government José María Aznar and the previous normal secretary of Vox Iván Espinosa de los Monteros. “I saw that on the poster, in addition to writers or columnists, there were politicians who have tripped up democratic values ​​and measures that make us a modern and empathetic society,” the writer of The peninsula of empty homes and model new winner of the Nadal award.

Antonio Maíllo, coordinator of Izquierda Unida, has additionally canceled his attendance, as he introduced in a press release on social networks, for not agreeing with how the occasions have been disseminated: it gives the look, in his opinion, that the contributors share the thesis of the title.

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, former Minister of Justice, additionally on the poster, dislikes Uclés’ insurance policies relating to abortion. To Aznar, the Iraq warfare, “which had disastrous consequences.” For Espinosa de los Monteros, his previous in a celebration, Vox, “which today is threatening democracy and tranquility in our country, whether by proclaiming xenophobic harangues that end in episodes like that of Torre Pacheco, whether by censoring literary acts – as happened to me on three occasions -, whether by wanting to remove laws in favor of the right to abortion or equal marriage, which have cost us so much. So many atrocious things… The most serious thing: weaving a plot in TikTok to convince teenagers to vote for them, putting the Face to the sun”.

Uclés also has comments on the title of the cycle, which spreads the idea that they lost the war all the Spanish, whatever side they were on. “I think the correct title would have been the war that we suffer all, which is what I defend in my book, where I deal with the intra-history of the conflict. But we didn’t all lose it. There is a very important nuance: the war was won by the same people who provoked it, and they profited from it for 40 years,” says the writer.

“That title does a disservice to the nation’s historic reminiscence and what actually occurred. It additionally gives the look that every one of us who seem on the poster agree with that concept, as undersignedand I do know first-hand that this isn’t the case.” For Uclés these issues are especially sensitive, given the theme of the novel that has catapulted him to literary stardom in record time, with more than 300,000 copies sold in 28 editions. Among the other participants in the events are the historian Julián Casanova, the journalist Edu Galán, the filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar, the minister Félix Bolaños, the sociologist Zira Box, the writer Paco Cerdá, the actor Juan Echanove or the president of the Council of State Carmen Calvo also focuses on parity: 27 men and only 6 women.

In latest instances, Uclés has been on the middle of controversy, of a number of controversies: attributable to what some take into account its overexposure in occasions and media; for his abandonment of social community X, contemplating it a “nest of fascists”; for his change of writer, from Siruela to Planeta, upon profitable the Nadal award; and even for his attribute beret. In reality, Pérez-Reverte himself, who coordinates the occasion, spoke in an interview on Canal Sur Radio about this matter: “I think he is a very interesting boy, Uclés. He is smart, too. He is very clever. He gives the image of a small-town boy, with the beret. I like him, I like him,” mentioned the creator of Captain Alatriste, who additionally praised his novel.

Why did Uclés comply with take part within the occasion? He attributes this to the massive variety of requests that the writer’s press workforce, and he himself (who appears to have the present of ubiquity), must take care of. They didn’t dedicate sufficient consideration to the character of the act earlier than enlisting: “There I sing the my fault”, concludes Uclés.