On 5 December he died Alfonso Ussía at the age of 77. Opening El Debate and not being able to click on his article leaves us all a little orphaned. With him a benchmark in spanish journalism disappears who maintained his column until the end. A vocational journalist like Paco Umbral and Jaime Capmany. A few weeks ago, on the occasion of the death of Giorgio Armani, I commented in this same medium that the Italian couturier, like all geniuses, had a voice of his own. The same thing happened to Ussía. The texts he wrote had personality. You didn't need to see the signature. Something akin to contemplating a painting by Goya. Clearly recognisable and admirable. An irreverent commentator, he combined satire, literary tradition and a critical and scathing view of Spain. Ussía had his own voice and an unrepeatable style.
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