Returning from exile in France as a teenager, Claret joined the underground struggle in a city he describes as dark and suffocating. In his latest reflections, the author of La casa de les tres xemeneies details his involvement in the Caputxinada, where students and intellectuals were besieged by police in a Sarrià monastery for three days.
“"I had to eat two pages of the 'Treball' magazine in the police car on the way to the Via Laietana station."
Claret also recounts his later imprisonment at the Model prison and the brutal interrogations at Via Laietana. He emphasizes that the dictatorship's repression was both terrifying and occasionally grotesque, highlighting the need to educate younger generations about the daily lack of freedom during that era.
