Piedralén, Pedralén
Nationalism And Particularism
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https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.6827Keywords:
Spain, History and novel, 19th-21st centuries, nationalism and particularismAbstract
Piedralén is the toponym of a high rock located above Cervera del Río Alhama, today a municipality in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja. Two books are set in this town and related to this rock, both of which seem to overlap and complement each other in terms of subject matter. Both deal with violence, whether stemming from Spanish nationalism or the Basque nationalism that emerged in the postwar period. One of the books is titled Piedralén (2010), a work by the Logroño historian Carlos Gil Andrés, and the other is Ojos que no ven (2009), a story by the novelist from Soria J. Á. González Sainz in which the toponym is changed to Pedralén. The purpose of this article is to relate both books to the so-called ‘problem of Spain’, which has prevented the formation of a State that harmonizes the more or less nationalist particularisms since the XIXth Century.
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