• Interview: María Elvira Roca Barea: "Since 1992 the common house has been gradually destroyed"

María Elvira Roca Barea has unanimously won the Espasa Prize 2019 with the work Fracasología. Spain and its elites: from the French to today .

The jury chaired by Pedro García Barreno, and composed of Nativel Preciado, Leopoldo Abadía, Fernando Trías de Bes, and Pilar Cortés - on behalf of the publisher - has emphasized that the winning work is “a magnificent essay, a bold revision that changes the Traditional image of the History of Spain and the concept that we Spaniards have of ourselves », as reported by Espasa in a statement.

María Elvira Roca Barea has been very grateful: «It is a very prestigious award received by people whom I admire a lot like Stanley Payne, Antonio Escohotado and Ramón Tamames. And it is, therefore, a great honor to receive it . An honor that compromises ».

María Elvira Roca Barea maintains in this book that propaganda is a way of managing the lie that Spanish has never been able to learn. He didn't know how to defend himself from it in the 16th and 17th centuries, and he doesn't know how to do it in the 21st century, the statement said.

The story according to which Spain is an anomaly among civilized nations has never lost its validity in our country since it was acquired with the French.

"This cultural phenomenon, which only took place in Spain, was succeeded by the Generation of 98 and regenerationism, which consolidated a negative view on Spain that marked several generations, and still has vigor," say sources from Espasa.

The Spanish during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were able to "turn a blind eye" or even "disregard the hispanophobic prejudices of other Europeans, what some authors called the cheerful contempt . Now, this disdain for the opinion of others ends in the century XVIII".

This book is about the moment from which a significant part of the Spanish elites assumed the discourse of the black legend because it was the winning discourse since the eighteenth century throughout Europe, they sentence from Espasa.

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