This talk examines the making of Fernando Aramburu\u2019s 2016 novel Patria<\/i>. It argues that\u00a0the novel\u2019s origins are to be found in\u00a0a 2011 op-ed in El Pa\u00eds<\/i>\u00a0written by Aramburu, which, once\u00a0novelized, became into one of most widely read and decorated works of Spanish literature in recent memory. A fictional recreation of the Basque conflict between the armed,\u00a0pro-independence\u00a0group ETA and the Spanish state, the novel has been celebrated for frequently shifting its viewpoint from victim to perpetrator. While narrative technique of alternating viewpoints from one chapter to the next is relatively common, in Patria<\/i> it reaches an extreme I call \u201cliterary populism.\u201d Literary populism names the strategy of novels that purport to depict \u201creal people\u201d over elites, to\u00a0paint society as Manichean, and to\u00a0turn social and political questions into highly charged moral quandaries. Embracing this framework for understanding Basque society, Patria<\/i> has become the inadvertent handmaiden of a resurgent Spanish nationalism, fanning the flames of a new wave of right-wing populism that has, elsewhere, plunged Europe into a social-democratic crisis.<\/p>\n
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