Gastón Segura, Jordi Canal and Gabriel Tortella review the intimate life of the Procés in the ABC Culture Classroom

Three days in 2021, in the final stretch of the pandemic, are used to reconstruct the intimate life of a powerful Catalan family during the Catalan independence movement in the novel "Saga Nostra." A confrontation with reality through fiction that reveals some of the social and family aspects of a complex moment unlike any other in Catalonia's recent history.

Around this book, its author Gastón Segura , and historians Jordi Canal and Gabriel Tortella, investigate in the ABC Culture Classroom the keys to that society that led to the unilateral declaration of independence in 2017, and the long process that followed in Catalonia and Spain.

The talk will be moderated by Carlos Aganzo, director of the Aula de Cultura, and will take place in the María Zambrano room of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Alcalá) in Madrid on June 12th, starting at 7:30 p.m. The event can be followed live or via streaming after registering on the ABC Aula de Cultura website .

Gabriel Tortella Casares (Barcelona, ​​1936) is an economist and historian specializing in contemporary economic history. He is emeritus professor of economic history at the University of Alcalá de Henares and president of the Economic History Association. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and is president of the Academic Advisory Council of the European Association of Banking History and the International Economic History Association. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Alicante, and winner of the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics. He is the author of works such as "Capitalism and Revolution," "Catalonia in Spain: History and Myth," "Democracy Yesterday and Today," "Introduction to Economics for Historians," and "The Origins of Capitalism in Spain."

Jordi Canal i Morell (Olot, 1964) is a writer, historian, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is a specialist in Carlism and Catalonia, and one of the most committed voices against Catalan nationalism in our time. He is the author of works such as "Carlism: Two Centuries of Counterrevolution in Spain," "A Brief History of Catalonia," and "With Kafka's Permission: The Independence Process in Catalonia."

Gastón Segura (Villena, 1961) is the director of the publishing house Drácena, and the author of novels such as 'Stopper', 'Las cuentas pendientes', 'Un crimen de Estado' or 'Las calicatas por la Santa Librada', as well as the essays 'Ifni: La guerra que silenció Franco' and 'Gaudí o el clamor de la piedra', a book selected as recommended reading for the doctoral courses at the Escuela Superior de Madrid.