Diarios completos: Monarquía, República, Guerra Civil

by Manuel Azaña

He aquí, por vez primera, todos los diarios que escribió el presidente de la Segunda República española. El valor histórico de estos documentos es inmenso, ya que en ellos se contienen los desiguales avatares de la turbulenta historia de España de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Pero al margen de este valor histórico, estos Diarios completos -de extraordinaria calidad literaria- son, además, un documento humano único y excepcional, que nos permite conocer la experiencia política de Manuel Azaña, vivida día a día, a través de las anotaciones personales tomadas en el momento mismo en que sucedieron los acontecimientos, y publicadas sin retoques ni correcciones posteriores. Un testimonio que nos da una imagen insólita de las complejidades y la miserias del poder y de la soledad a que condena a aquellos que lo ejercen.

Hardcover

Published December 5, 2000

About the author

Considered as one of the most important speakers in XX spanish politics, although he had his degree as a lawyer, he later decided being a journalist. During World War I he covered operations on the Western Front for various newspapers. His career moved him to be a writer, and then a politician.

He was the first Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933), and later served again as Prime Minister (1936), and then as the second and last President of the Republic (1936–1939). The Spanish Civil War broke out while he was President. With the defeat of the Republic in 1939, he fled to France, resigned his office, and died in exile shortly afterwards.