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Commitment to the present<\/h1>\n

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Text and selection of content: Georges Tyras <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Reference of collective life<\/em><\/h2>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#020B11″ animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]In the years following the death of Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, people – in particular those who used to read his Monday column in El Pa\u00eds \u2013 would wonder, when faced with any kind of event occurring in Spain or anywhere in the world: \u201cWhat would Manolo think?\u201d It was, and still is, a way of underlining the role of reference point, as a lookout of the collective life, that Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n performed throughout his life and in all the territories of his writing. Born with the civil war, V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n experienced and suffered, on the losing side, a long post-war era that forged a visceral anti-Francoist conviction. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#020B11″ link_font=”||||on||||” link_text_color=”#020B11″ animation_style=”fade” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

As an intellectual, he couldn’t help but be committed. To memory, to his time, to his city, to his social class, to writing. Hence he always combined personal involvement in public life with a creative activity that encompassed journalism, poetry, the novel, the essay, and much more besides. Joining the PSUC after a spell in support of Felipe [Gonzalez], participation in the La Pau: diari de la Pau,<\/em><\/a><\/span> against the first Gulf War, the tireless search for the historic subject of change, with the travels to Latin America, are some facts, among many others, that attest to the scale of the committed intellectual that Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n was despite all the disillusionments…<\/p>\n

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Selection of texts<\/h2>\n

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