scholarly journals A Biographical Novel of the Spanish Civil War: Lydie Salvayre's Pas pleurer (2014)

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Jeannette Gaudet
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Passionate Love ◽  
Georges Bernanos ◽  
The One

This article focuses on the biographical novel, Pas pleurer (2014) and the author Lydie Salvayre’s development of two diametrically opposed experiences of the Spanish civil war. Pas pleurer deploys the author’s parallel engagement with Montse, Salvayre’s mother, and with Georges Bernanos through a reading and commentary of the polemical essay, Les Grands Cimetières sous la lune. Biographical material provides the ground for intersecting narratives: on the one hand, the Bernanos intertext with its keen analysis of the complicity of secular and religious institutions to maintain control of Spain through terrorism and violence reverberates throughout and finds its echo in the tragic story of Montse’s older brother José. Set against this is the adolescent Montse’s encounter with the dramatic social revolution underway in the Catalan city and her life-altering experience of passionate love, the memory of which remains intact and luminous despite age and disease. Examining both n arratives highlights the act of resistance at the heart of the novel and captured by its title.

scholarly journals Guerra Civil Espanhola na literatura e no cinema dos anos 1990: a idealização da luta revolucionária

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Volker Jaeckel
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Present Article ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Memory In Literature ◽  
The One ◽  
Literature And Film

Resumo: No presente artigo pretende-se uma apresentação de três obras de conhecidos autores e diretores europeus (uma literária, duas cinematográficas) dos anos 1990 do século 20, nas quais acontece uma idealização da luta revolucionária durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola. O objetivo deste texto é explicar o surgimento do movimento libertário no início da contenda na região da Catalunha em 1936 e evidenciar as manifestações literárias da glorificação desta batalha na Guerra Civil Espanhola entre anarquistas por um lado e comunistas e republicanos, por outro, estes últimos querendo reverter a situação de coletivização dos bens agrários e industriais.Palavras-chave: Guerra Civil Espanhola; revolução social; memórias na literatura e no cinema.Abstract: In the present article the intention is a presentation of three works of well-known European authors and directors (a literary one, two cinematographic ones) of the Nineties of the 20th century in which an idealization of the revolutionary fight in the Spanish Civil War takes place. The objective of this text is to explain the sprouting of the libertarian movement at the beginning of the dispute in the region of Catalonia in 1936 and to evidence the literary and novelistic manifestations of the glorification of these rivalry battles between anarchists on the one hand and communists and republicans on the other side, the latter of which wanted to revert the situation of socialization of the agrarian and industrial goods.Keywords: Spanish Civil War; Anarchist Social Revolution; Memory in Literature and Film.

La represiňn franquista. La historiografěa y el debate en torno a la memoria

2009 ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Carme Molinero
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Western World ◽  
New Order ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Repressed Memories ◽  
Legal Violence ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

- In Spain the recognition of the "repressed memories" has earned a remarkable public presence since the '90s, similarly to what occurred in most of the western world. In the Spanish case the attention focused on the "memory of the defeated" in the Civil War, which had been systematically silenced during the almost forty years of dictatorship and, to a large extent, during the following two decades too. In parallel with that, in the last quarter of the century there has been an outstanding accumulation of historical knowledge on the many and complementary forms of repression. This has demonstrated the magnitude of physic violence - deaths, concentration camps, imprisonment, work exploitation - as well as legal violence - purging, fines, etc. Francoist repression was much stronger than the one practised by other New Order fascist regimes during peace time. These historical studies have also provided concrete background for movements which for many years have asked for re-cognition from the democratic institutions of victims of Francoism. Key words: Spanish Civil War, Francoist repression, Spanish Civil War historical studies, history and memory, memory public policies, physic and legal violence in Spanish Civil War.

‘In war-torn Spain’: The politics of Irish press coverage of the Spanish civil war

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Independent State ◽  
War Correspondents ◽  
National Newspaper ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

The Spanish civil war was a conflict that acted as a touchstone for the divisions within Irish society. As a newly-independent state that was 93 per cent Catholic, reporting a conflict that involved, on the one hand, an armed rebellion against a democratically elected government, and on the other, the killing of clergy and the burning of churches, proved divisive. The decisions by Ireland’s three national newspaper titles to send correspondents to Spain only further polarized opinion as their reportage reinforced divergent opinions on the origins and meaning of the conflict. The examination, through digital archives, of the activities of these correspondents sheds new light on the experiences of war correspondents in this conflict and on the ‘newspaper war’ that sought to influence public and political opinion on it. Similarly, the reactions to these reports give an insight into how divisive the conflict was within a state seeking to bed down its own democratic institutions.

scholarly journals Lectura y aprendizaje lector en tiempos de guerra

2020 ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Gaetano Antonio Vigna
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The One ◽  
Self Learning

Resumen: En esta contribución se estudia la escena del aprendizaje lector y el encuentro con el libro que seis escritores contemporáneos cristalizan en sus libros de memorias. A través del análisis de tres tópicos estrechamente relacionados con dicha vivencia de la etapa infantil —la influencia de mentor; la rebelión al mundo escolar; el listado de obras influyentes—, se apreciará el poder consolador y correctivo del libro en el trasfondo histórico de la Guerra Civil española y de los primeros años del franquismo. A partir de esta aproximación, el artículo mostrará, por un lado, cómo los niños protagonistas de los libros escogidos contestarán el canon literario impuesto y el sistema educativo oficial, rechazado a favor del autodidactismo. Por el otro, será posible apreciar el retrato que estos memorialistas ofrecen de aquellos años de represión.Abstract: In this paper we study the scene of the learning of reading and the encounter with the Book as six contemporary writers narrate in their memoirs. Through the analysis of three autobiographemes related to this experience of the childhood —the mentor’s influence; the school rebellion; the list of influential literary works—, we will appreciate the consoling and corrective power of the book during the Spanish Civil War and the earlier years of the Francoist regime. From this approach, this paper will show, on the one hand, how the main characters of the selected memoirs reject the imposed literary canon, as well as the formal educational system in favor of self-learning. On the other, it will give us a portrait of Spanish society in those repressive years.

The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975)

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
John Crispin ◽  
Gareth Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Novel

The Novel of the Spanish Civil War

Hispania ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 891
Author(s):  
Jana Sandarg ◽  
Gareth Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Novel

Teatri della memoria. Rivisitando il revisionismo in Spagna

2009 ◽  
pp. 30-41
Author(s):  
Javier Rodrigo
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Spanish Transition ◽  
Memory Recovery ◽  
The One

- A few years after it initiated, the so-called ‘revisionist offensive' in Spain seems to have produced questionable results. On the one hand, its arguments have failed to enter professional historiography; on the other hand, however, its unquestionable sell and media popularity have turned it into a social phenomenon. In addition, historians have not reached an agreement about how to reply to it. Finally, on both sides, the definition, the origins and the limits of the phenomenon do not seem to have been the object of discussion. This is what we intend to analyse in this article. Key words: Revisionism, Negationism, Spanish Civil war, collective memory, Spanish transition to democracy, ‘memory recovery'.

The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1936-75)

1992 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 500
Author(s):  
Peter Bly ◽  
Gareth Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Novel

scholarly journals Memoria, violencia y utopia en  Antzaren Bidea (2007) / El camino de la oca (2008) de Jokin Muñoz, una novela vasca sobre la Guerra Civil.

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Kortázar
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
Literary System

Jokin Muñoz’s novel, Antzaren Bidea (2007) / El camino de la oca (2008), pivots around the memoir of the Spanish Civil War in Navarre. The methodology of the analysis combines narratology with elements from Memoir Studies. The conclusions of the analysis highlight the uniqueness of the novel in the Basque literary system, due to the use of the space of Navarre’s Rivera (river-land area), the repression exercised on the civilian population and also owing to the ideological depiction of the characters, since the main character is a Carlist (royalist-traditionalist) that feels nostalgia for the bygone days of the Spanish Republic where different ideologies would coexist in peace.

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