A Spanish association has called for an investigation into the enduring legacy of censorship during the Franco regime after it emerged that censored versions of books and films are still circulating more than four decades after the dictator died.
A publisher in Argentina last year released a censored edition of Soldiers’ Pay, hinting that works censored by Franco’s regime are also making their way to Latin America.
He swiftly realised that the Spanish TV channel where he had often watched the film still had a censored version in its catalogue.
More than 90% of the copies of William Faulkner’s Soldiers’ Pay on loan at Spain’s public libraries are censored.