Going against the current ends up pointing out the salmon on duty as a distinguished, critical type, capable of taking that path in reverse to avoid dangerous channels and inertias that, in the end, will always die in the sea. It is the case of a Albert boadella Lately exercising more than anti-dog Catalan and therefore bad Catalan for the rest of the salmon that continue their way to the sea with the gustirrinín of the water in favor, pushing your back ...
The thing is that with a guy like Albert, sometimes you position yourself by his side, especially in front of the intolerant separatists, and in others you feel very far from their positions. But it is what it has to assume the truth of each one until the last consequences.
Someone like Albert, who lived through Francoism and persecution, knows perfectly well which side authoritarianism is on now. And of course, that really fucks the separatist environment that is an anti-fascist icon just on the other side. As by the way it happens with many others.
Because, if we look closely, those who surround political separatism are stomachs in search of thanks, Pilar Rahola or Juanjo Puigcorbé roll vanes who until they had a job in general media, were as Spanish as anyone. Without forgetting that many others from this same separatist faction such as the pseudo-singer Lluis Llach descends from Franco and of course, this is so similar to separatism ... And yet, from time to time they deceive someone like Chomsky.
But come on, I'm leaving the topic that concerns us today, the books of a Boadella always loaded with reasons seasoned with humor, which always come better ...
Top 3 recommended books by Albert Boadella
El Duque
There are those who still have tea at 5 and in their free time go down to the stables to comb one of their steeds. Guys who play a few holes at the private golf club in the middle of the afternoon with another of similar blue blood. And in its complete mismatch from reality there is a theatrical point of life, like a nineteenth-century stage that extends its stagecraft to the trompe l'oeil of life.
The friendship that Albert Boadella has maintained for years with the Duke of Segorbe leads him to reflect on two ways of seeing the world and being in it: that of the aristocrat who has centuries of tradition behind him and that of the buffoon, the comedian who It drags a very different tradition: showbiz people, untrustworthy.
The true social distance, the protocol, the taste for tradition and conservatism that, against all odds, perfectly fits the buffoon, also a lover of beauty and the classic: architecture, gardens, art, music and even the bullfighting party. A literary and evocative reflection on a world of great beauty despite its anachronism.
Goodbye Catalonia: Chronicle of love and war
The figure of Boadella gained new vigor in the tumultuous days in which separatist Catalonia looked at itself in the mirror and the mirror answered that everything was hers. Because then Tabarnia was born, the pimple in the ass, the irreducible legaña, the fluff in the navel of the great dictator of Catalan nationalism always looming precisely at his navel.
Albert Boadella builds a deep and objective reflection on the history of nationalism through the personal life and events of this «former distinguished Catalan».
Part of his fond memories of Catalonia, going through his first misunderstandings and growing disenchantment with his land, until reaching total war. Eleven years later, he has been elected president of Tabarnia in exile. The war continues without respite and love, fortunately, also.
Long live Tabarnia!
Albert Boadella, president of Tabarnia in exile, reflects in this book on the current situation in Catalonia and the political, social and cultural causes that have led to it. From analytical finesse and using a sense of humor as a weapon, he explains the reasons and importance of the existence of Tabarnia, an antibody to the extreme situation that Catalonia is experiencing and which was radiographed on December 21, 2017.
"There is no confusion that is worth: nationalism is an antiquity incompatible with democracy, source of the worst violence, and there is no reason why in that civilized, modern and democratic country that is Spain since the Transition, it has a place in it" . From the foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa.
