The last professional metamorphosis of a cultural factotum of Francoism: Ignacio Agustí Peypoch and the Spain of the sixties (1958-1970)

Abstract

This article focuses on analyzing the last professional stage that the writer and journalist Ignacio Agustí Peypoch (Lliçà de Vall, 1913 - Barcelona, 1974) began in the press after selling his shares of the magazine Destino, in August 1957. After a long lawsuit with Josep Vergés for the ownership of the weekly founded during the CivilWar, Agustí resumed the journalistic profession in the official press of the Movimiento (Pueblo, El Español), then laying his hopes on important communication companies sheltered under the capital of the businessman Jaime Castell Lastortras, such as Tele/eXprés and Tele/estel. At the same time, he began a weekly collaboration with the magazine Triunfo. All this in the wake of the brand-new Minister of Information and Tourism, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, in charge of reorienting the informative and propaganda environment of the dictatorship during the sixties. At the same time, the crisis of the cultural system of the Franco regime took place, in a scenario of substantial changes in the sociocultural life of the country.