[Spain-shaped hole.
Photo: Javier.]
He died almost 40 years ago but somehow he’s never
quite gone.
This month Dr Jordi
Cornellà-Detrell, a Welsh academic, has discovered that “scores of popular novels censored during the
dictator’s reign are still being published – in their Franco-era form.”
Those books that continue to
bear cuts imposed by censors under General Franco’s dictatorship include James
Bond novels, Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and JM Cain’s The Postman
Always Rings Twice.”
Read more here.
Read more here.
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