The best camouflage begins with words. Thus, while the German and Italian dictatorial regimes were initially characterized by their top leader (Hitlerism, Mussolinism), the more generic Nazism and Fascism gradually took over. In Spain, however, the opposite happened, and the figure of General Francisco Franco ended up covering everything up, including—and opportunely—the connivances of some, the changes of many, and the appeasement of many. This over-emphasis on the Leader It has also had historiographical consequences because many key figures of Franco's regime do not have good biographies or, worse still, they have not had time to whitewash their careers.

"Today's Catalonia cannot please any young person of clear and high intelligence [...] The market-like, Jewish, Sancho Panza-like Catalonia, prude and counterfeiting must disappear before an educated Catalonia, aware of its worth, with its own education, free-spirited and quite expansive." This excerpt from the article Catalan youth today, written by Jaume Brossa (Sant Andreu, 1875 - Barcelona, ​​​​1919) and published in the magazine The Advance In 1893 it is found at the beginning of the chapter that José-Carlos Mainer (Zaragoza, 1944) dedicated to the so-called "regional literatures" - Catalan, Basque and Galician - in an essay of reference in the Hispanic world, The Silver Age, first published in 1975 in Los Libros de la Frontera by the editor and bookseller José Batlló, still during the Franco dictatorship, and now recovered by Taurus with a new prologue by the author and an epilogue signed by Jordi Gracia and Domingo Ródenas de Moya.