Jorge Semprun is a leading writer from the first generation of Spanish Civil War exiles, yet studies of his work have often focused solely on his literary testimony to the concentration camps and his political activities. Although Semprun's work derives from his incarceration in…
Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel: Revisiting the Past
by Leggott, Sarah, Bonaddio, Federico, Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison, Omlor, Daniela, Woods, Ross, Arkinstall, Christine, Caballero Rodríguez, Beatriz, Lough, Francis, Van Luijk, Julia, Walsh, Anne L., Bucknell University Press
This book proposes a new direction for the study of Spanish literature of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, arguing that novels of this period merit a fresh critical approach that enriches existing perspectives on the Spanish novel during the first two decades of the Franco dict…