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Monterde, Antoni Martí
Iberian Modalities, 02/2013Book Chapter
Nearly a century ago, in an opuscule entitledMomentum Catastroficum, Pío Baroja made an assertion upon which we must meditate in various ways: “If Catalonia separates from Spain, within fifty years it will be spiritually French” (55). Independent of his motivations, the thing that most attracts our attention in Baroja’s affirmation (which in no way can be understood simply as aboutade) is his ability to do something that Catalans have scarcely done for some time: that is, to think about our literary, intellectual, political, and editorial culture, once independence from Spain has been achieved. This issue cannot be assumed
