Tag: Spain

Reconquesta II

There is always hope we will see proper history in the making. And no actual Spaniards are going to fight for the government of Pedro Sánchez, least of all the Catalans.

King Felipe VI has called a meeting at Zarzuela with the top Military leadership of Spain and Ceuta, in which he has expressly excluded the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez. The meeting was attended by the Chief of the Defense Staff, the Chief of the Operations Command, the Chief of the Joint Operations Command, and the General Commander of Ceuta, in addition to Defense Minister Margarita Robles.

The President of the Government Pedro Sánchez and several Ministers have made their great displeasure known, but let us not forget that article 6 of the Constitution gives the army the function of safeguarding the Territorial Integrity of the State, and the King is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces according to article 62 of the Constitution, when Pedro Sánchez and Marlaska are the subject of a possible judicial investigation for crimes against the territorial integrity of Spain and treason.

Not only has the National Court ordered the Police not to inform Marlaska or Sánchez, but the King himself has left them out of a surprise meeting with the top Military leadership of Spain.

It would certainly be a major blow against Clown World if King Felipe VI was to follow in the footsteps of the Generalissimo and put the treasonous government to the sword, then follow the example of Ferdinand and Isabella and expel all of the foreigners working against the people of Spain.

Democracy is a political deceit and a false ideal. It is long past time for the end of this particular political cycle. And no doubt both China and Russia stand ready to provide assistance to the first European nation to break free of their satanic oppressors.

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TRANSLATION: Cádiz

The eighth volume of the Episodios Nacionales, the great historical novel cycle of Spain, Cádiz carries Gabriel Araceli into the besieged island city where Spain’s first constitution is being born, and where a drawing-room intrigue will end in blood on the sand.

It is 1810, and Cádiz is the last free city in Spain. While French cannon fire arcs across the bay and the newly convened Cortes debates sovereignty, freedom of the press, and the abolition of feudal lordships, Gabriel finds himself entangled in a world of tertulias and domestic politics more dangerous than any battlefield. The condesa Amaranta needs his help to recover her secret daughter, Inés, from the household of the formidable doña María de Rumblar, a Catholic absolutist matriarch who has imprisoned the girl behind the walls of a household so rigidly governed it resembles a convent. To reach Inés, Gabriel must navigate a social minefield: the effusive doña Flora, whose speeches are torrents of self-interruption and genuine warmth; the feckless young Count Don Diego, who is supposed to marry Inés for family advantage; and the absurd Don Pedro del Congosto, commander of a militia so magnificently incompetent that its members are named after parrots and peacocks.

At the centre of everything is Lord Gray, a brilliant, melancholic Englishman who delivers dazzling speeches against his own country, joins the beggars at the Carmen convent for the philosophical experience, and quotes Byron while systematically destroying the people around him. Gabriel believes Lord Gray is pursuing Inés. He is wrong. The truth, when it comes, is worse than anything Gabriel has imagined.

The Episodios Nacionales is a cycle of forty-six historical novels tracing the history of Spain from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 through the Restoration of the 1870s. Written between 1872 and 1912, the cycle is one of the supreme achievements of European fiction — a work that stands with Balzac’s Comédie Humaine and Trollope’s Palliser and Barchester novels as a panoramic portrait of an entire nation across a century of upheaval. This is the first complete English translation of the eighth volume.

CÁDIZ by Benito Pérez Galdós is this week’s new translation. It is the eighth of the first series of the Episodios Nacionales and was translated from the original Spanish by Vox Day. The ebooks have already gone out to the subscribers. It’s now available on Amazon for Kindle, KU, and audiobook. An excerpt is available at Castalia Library.