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title: Lee libros anarquistas y serás un hombre (anarchist poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lee-libros-anarquistas-y-seras-un-hombre-poster-1936/
description: Poster in black and red of a stylised head and shoulders with a large eye set over an open book, with the words 'Lee libros anarquistas y serás un hombre'
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---

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[![Lee libros anarquistas y serás un hombre, 1936 Spain poster: Poster in black and red of a stylised head and shoulders](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lee-libros-anarquistas-y-seras-un-hombre-poster-1936.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lee-libros-anarquistas-y-seras-un-hombre-poster-1936.jpg)

# Lee libros anarquistas y serás un hombre (anarchist poster)

Poster in black and red of a stylised head and shoulders with a large eye set over an open book, with the words 'Lee libros anarquistas y serás un hombre' running across the foot and a small line in French on the book's cover. The tell: reading is offered as the way to become a 'man', so an ideology's literature is attached to adult self-respect, and the watching eye adds a faint sense of being looked at.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LEE
LIBROS ANARQUISTAS Y SERÁS UN HOMBRE
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Read anarchist books and you will be a man (a real man; 'hombre' also means 'human being')
```

Only the large lettering is transcribed; the faint French line on the book cover and the signature are not legible enough to transcribe verbatim. The accent on SERÁS is printed. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

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