Ayala «di ritorno»

Authors

Giulia Quaggio

Keywords:

Return, cultural Transition, Francisco Ayala, late, Francoism, Dialogue

Abstract

Ayala’s «return»

The peculiar case of intellectual Francisco Ayala’s return from exile and his integration into Spain’s public life can contribute to analyze the relationship between government policy and the gradual reinsertion of liberal and orteguian thinking as a means to normalize and socialize democratic values. The relationship between the Spanish institutions and Ayala were not always straightforward: this study tries to shed light on the evolution of the link between Ayala and the Spanish state, the type of recognition and consideration he received from late Francoist and Transition governments and on how Ayala, a representative of the generation of ’27, participated in the Spain’s public and intellectual life in a very delicate historical moment.

Received: 04-05-2011

Author Biography

Giulia Quaggio

Giulia Quaggio si è addottorata presso il Dipartimento di Studi Storici e Geografici dell’Università di Firenze e, grazie a una borsa del Ministero della Cultura, ha collaborato con la Fundación Francisco Ayala. Nel 2011-2012 è stata ricercatrice contratta post-dottorale nel Dipartimento di Storia del Pensiero dei Movimenti Politici e Sociali dell’Università Complutense di Madrid. Da maggio del 2012 è Visiting fellow presso il Cañada Blanch Center for Contemporary Spanish Study della London School of Economics di Londra. Ha pubblicato con Enrico Acciai Un conflitto che non passa. Storia, memoria e rimozioni della Guerra Civile spagnola (Pistoia, ISRPT, 2012) e Política cultural y transición a la democracia: el caso del Ministerio de Cultura UCD (1977-1982), in “Historia del Presente”, 2011, n. 17.