'People of my generation liked Tarantino and Almodóvar – they weren't interested in the civil war'
By Maya Jaggi
On my way to meet the writer Javier Cercas in Barcelona's bohemian Gràcia district, a cryptic poster in the Metro caught my eye: a silhouette of a moustached figure in a paramilitary cap, pointing a pistol. To any Spaniard the image is unmistakable, even without the legend "23-F". Drawn from TV footage inside the Spanish parliament – the Cortes – on 23 February 1981, it fixes the moment 30 years ago when Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero burst in with a band of civil guards, shooting plaster off the ceiling and taking some 350 MPs hostage in an abortive coup d'état...[continued]
