Manuel Azaña líder da república espanhola: discursos do início da república (1930 – 1931)

Abstract

The paper that is being presented, is now the result of studies developed in the History, Society and Culture Course between 2010 and 2012. The classes about Spanish Civil War given by Professor Antonio Rago Filho, let me to deepen thoughts about the Spanish Second Republic ( 1931- 1939), about their proposals, leaders and deadlocks, that has marked that country during the 30´s of the XX century. These thoughts were those that led me to Manuel Azaña, the most important leader during republican time and author of a number of proposals yet discussed. Azaña made extensive and varied production, in literary and political fields: romances, articles, works of literary criticism and speeches. Although he had started his political activity late, he became an important thinker and political formulation, who aimed the construction of a more democratic and fair Spain, to overcome centuries of delay, income concentration and exacerbated moralism, based on the most conservative Catholicism. The text that follows is intended to contribute for a higher comprehension of the Spanish Second Republic and for the proposals that guided its creation and development, for it will present a brief history of the Spanish society, a summary biography of Manuel Azaña, highlighting the fundamental characteristics of his intellectual production and of his political procedure and his proposals defended by him in some of his most striking speeches uttered in the beginning of the republican time