Sabino Arana Goiri and the El Euskaro phase (1888-1890)

Authors

  • Pedro José Chacón Delgado Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.201.07

Abstract

To date, Sabino Arana Goiri’s El Euskaro phase (1888-1890) has been overlooked by his biographers, even more so than the Barcelona phase (1883-1888), which has also been denied all the attention it merits. In both cases, the former in particular, what is evident is the inclusion of the founder of Basque nationalism in familiar Spanish traditionalism, with the gestation of a process of evolution towards the nationalist idea, with highs and lows, which would only appear in public in 1890. This historical reality contrasts with the narrative of the protagonist himself, who attributes the origins of his ideology to a family episode in 1882 – the conversation with his brother Luis–, which all scholars regard as irrefutable. What I show here is that Luis, in 1882, was not nationalist, as his brother wished to see him, but traditionalist too, first Carlist and then fundamentalist, and that, therefore, he could not have transmitted anything that he, Sabino Arana, had not previously developed in his ideological evolution.

Published

2023-09-21

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