The National Library of Spain, whose mission is to collect and conserve the bibliographic heritage of the country, has raised a certain controversy in social networks after publishing a message in which the son of Emilia Pardo Bazán was referring as "Military Lord" and "Split".

The state library institution made use of its official Twitter account this Wednesday to invite the exhibition 'Emilia Pardo Bazán.The challenge of modernity ', curated by Isabel Burdiel, which hosts until September 26.

"We invite you to meet Emilia Pardo Bazán from her dimension as a mother, friend and educator, the most personal dimension of the writer through her letters," the text starts.After summarizing part of his biography, the BNE focuses on the son of the Galician writer: Jaime Quiroga and Pardo Bazán.

"She wanted to make her son Jaime an intellectual, but took the option of military man with colorPray the writing.

Several users of the social network echoed the description and reproached the state institution to use certain adjectives that they considered "derogatory".

There is the circumstance that Jaime Quiroga and Pardo Bazán was killed with his only son by militiamen of the Popular Front shortly after the civil war broke out and after being tortured in the Czech of Fine Arts, also known as Czech Development.A fact that, in the opinion of the citizens who criticized the tweet, the National Library should not have omitted.

Criticism on Twitter

"So, for the National Library is well shot? Curious.Sounds to sectarian institutional degradation, "says a user."A small reminder, gentlemen: the library is national, not of the 'Spanish Single Socialist Party'.Thank you."Add another.

"What problem is it military? They could have limited themselves to commenting negatively that he was a waste and little lover of the intellectual, but the 'Military Lord' seems to me that it is more like.It is a profession like anyone else, not something negative, "says a third.

"You have lacked to add that the typejo was shame of not joining the PSOE, which led to a deserved death due to lead overdose in 1936," says another."The PSOE loaded the son and grandson of the Pardo Bazán.The daughters died without offspring, leaving Meirás Pazo without legal heirs, "continues another social network user.

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"To be the National Library it seems that the tweets are written by the chigrero of the town house on duty," they add."Don't you be ashamed?" Ask one more.

National Library response

Vozpopuli has contacted if the description of Joaquín Quiroga and Pardo Bazán responds to words that the writer herself used through the letters that the exhibition disseminates today.

"The text is literally extracted from the exhibition catalog 'Emilia Pardo Bazán.The challenge of modernity ', written by experts in the author of the whole country.This in particular leaves a paragraph on page 100 of the book, in the chapter dedicated to the correspondence of the author and written by a member of the Royal Galician Academy, "explain sources from the institution.

The exhibition was inaugurated on June 9 and will be open until September 26."This exhibition seeks to transfer the spectators, visually expressively, a work and a life that are crucial to review and update the literary and intellectual history of the last third of the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth.

The first objective, therefore, is to show "the modernity of the literary, intellectual, personal and political challenges of Pardo Bazán, as well as its European, transnational dimension," explains Commissioner Isabel Burdiel on the BNE website.

It will be addressed, he says, the multifaceted character of a trajectory that declined in female the term, purely modern, of intellectual."A term that from the beginning had a strong male connotation that is necessary to expand and question.Novelist who, together with figures such as Benito Pérez Galdós or Leopoldo Alas, Clarín, played a decisive role in the renewal of the fiction of his time and was translated into life to a dozen languages, including Japanese, "he adds.

"Cultural journalist greatly interested in the politics, critic and historian of literature, playwright; prolific and decidedly exceptional storyteller in the Europe of her time; cultural businesswoman with a magazine and an editorial (new critical theater and the Women's Library, 1890) that they were pioneers in the diffusion in Spain of Russian literature (Dostoevski, Tolstoi or Turguéniev) and of the French and British debates about feminism, with the translation and comment of the works of John Stuart Mill and August Bebel, "he says.

One of the most original aspects of its intellectual and political career was - the National Library - the insertion of feminism into the cultural and political debate of the second half of the nineteenth century, openly using the term and contributing to its respectability, with a repercussionvery intense and effective public."A type of feminism that stands out again for its modernity and its ability to link with current concerns and debates," he says.

The question of the professionalization of the writer, as well as the female celebrity and his paradoxes, will be two key plot knots of the exhibition."His efforts will be visible, again fully modern, of managing her profession and her image as a famous writer and woman".

The exhibition shows his work and his life through printed books, manuscripts, engravings, photographs...that come from both the BNE and other Spanish institutions.