Resumen de Fernando Valera y la idea transversal de España

Francisco Javier Corbacho Palacios

• Fernando Valera Aparicio certainly was an exceptional, but also unknown, politician in the Spanish Second Republic. He was born in Madr oñera, Caceres in 1899 although he soon moved with his family from Extremadura to Valencia. Later on, he studied, applied for archivist successfully and took interest in political matters. In fact, in the early 1930�s, Valera contributed to create the Spanish Radical and Socialist Party.

  During the Spanish republican period, he was an elected deputy and fast became a notable writer inspired by mystical literature. When Spanish Civil War finished, he set out for exile in Mexico and France where Valera lived the rest of his life. Then he was teacher, translator and kept working for the exiled republican government which in 1971 he took charge of.

  Referring to his ideologic lines, it might be described several skills:

  Liberalism, Nation, The General Franco� s dictatorship, Democracy, Socialism and Revolution. Valera brilliantly emphasized how spanish conservatives and Franco�s regime introduced false concepts in order to control the rights and liberties of the Spanish people. Nevertheless and according to this article, Valera firmly denied those concepts and developed a �transversal idea of Spain