Fernando Aramburu: “The Problem of Europe Is that It Has Become Too Accustomed to Well-Being”

Next year will mark ten years of the publication of Patria, a novel that placed Fernando Aramburu at the top of Spanish literature and that impacted millions of readers from all over the world with an intimate and at the same time blatant approach to the human dimension of the Basque conflict and the action of the terrorist organization ETA. Patria was not only a literary event, but a phenomenal call of attention to the ideological extremism and…