In recent years, civil disobedience has gained particular prominence among anti-eviction, environmental, and pacifist movements. However, this act of defying a norm, whether actively or passively, is not unique to 21st-century Spain. This dialogue brings to mind Gonzalo Arias (1926-2008), who in April 1968 launched his clandestine “programmatic novel,” “Los Encartelados” (The Postered Ones), as a prelude to the performance carried out six months later to incite the Spanish people to take to the streets, holding posters, to demand “free elections for the head of state,” an act that earned him several months in prison. It was one of the first political actions in Spain inspired by the doctrines of non-violence, the threshold of the new social movements of civil disobedience of late Francoism and post-Francoism, and the seed of conscientious objection for political reasons, whose best-known face is that of Pepe Beúnza.

At this table, we will learn more about its protagonist within the context of the era, thanks to two publications, " Los encartelados. Novela programa" (The Carteled: A Program Novel ) and " Cartas y circulares inéditas" (Unpublished Letters and Circulars ), which reveal the network of contacts and the intricacies of this little-known adventure. We will be joined by Rebeca Rodríguez Hoz and Bénédicte Vauthier, from the University of Bern, who edited and /or introduced the books. They will speak with the writer Isaac Rosa, to whom the first book is dedicated.