Spanish Civil War Literature: A Historical Overview

Posted on Feb 18, 2025 in Latin

Spanish Civil War Literature (1936-39)

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) saw a dominance of ideological propaganda, generally lacking in literary quality. Cultural transmission was hampered by death and exile. The evolution of Spanish literature has been linked to subsequent social and political transformations in the country.

Main Stages

  • Postwar Literature:
    • Exaltation of dominant ideas: Literature often reflected the dominant ideas of the time.
    • Works reflecting social issues: Works reflect the heartbreak of social situations.
    • Renewal: Foreign influences determined formal renewal.
    • Latest Tendencies: Authors expressed themselves freely, and different orientations emerged.

Miguel Hernandez

Miguel Hernandez’s work is characterized by its quality and intense emotion. His themes include love poetry, death, pain, and social and political commitment. His poetic career began with the production of moons with Experts, play d, avant-garde baroque influence. The beam is constantly q contains poems express unrequited love sufrimientodl through imágenessurrealistas d-positive and committed símbolos.: durant la, Miguel Hernandez wrote about the dignity dl dl lucha.Vieto people in town d is 1 song man lurks alabanza.El exaltation t reflja pessimism about the horrors of death and the War. d-Last Poems: tma retakes loving, pro pain by dsd d ausncia jijo and women, and lack d libertad.La intense emotion is expressed neopopularismo cn dl resources.Evolution d lyric to 1975: DSD Civil War, the Spanish opera has evolved dl dsarraigo d garcilanismo and postwar social towards poetry and the formal renewal.

Main Stages:

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  • Society: In the decade of 50 d were uprooted many poets dl d tstimonio the momento.Se realidadd belong to this tndncia Blas d Otero, Gabriel Celaya, Jose Hierro and social renewal .
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Jose Hierro

Jose Hierro (1922-2002) was born in Madrid. He lived in his childhood Santandr and adolescence. He was imprisoned in 1944. Released in 1998, he received the Cervantes Award and in 1999 entered the Royal Academy Española. Works: Earth Without Us (1946), Five of 42 (1953), The I d I (1975) and hallucinations d book (1964), Agenda (1990), Binder in New York (1998). In his work follows 2 paths:

  • Reports: Poems in q reflects his time “I” or “us”. Its lexicon is careful and has 1 rhythm and lyrical emotion intnsa.
  • Hallucinations: Images are linked and apparently unrelated things are personified when projected on author dl these emotions.

Latest Tendencies

  • Poetry of Experience: The poet sees her everyday, urban reality and incorporates ideas and feelings personales.
  • Neopurismo: This is d poems, especially short verse, q tiendn the conceptual cncntración and invite the suggestion by dl.
  • Other Tendencies: The poets continued the search d new ways of expression and other tendncias lyrics have emerged:
    • The narrative poems of Julio Martinez Mesanza.
    • The surreal world works of Blanca Andreu.
    • Impressionism of d.
    • The recreation of cultural universes of d.