by Manuel Azaña · Nocturna Ediciones, S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417834678
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El jardín de los frailes is a novel by Manuel Azaña that narrates the experiences of a teenager in a religious school in El Escorial, where the author studied. The work portrays and criticizes education in religious schools, showing an atmosphere in which young people learned to refute great philosophers. Azaña, through this story, reflects on the need to limit the power of the Church for the regeneration of Spain.
Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). He has been called the father of the Republic and was the most prominent leader of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.
