This summer I’m teaching a course on Spanish Civil War novels. As usual, comments welcomed. Below I’ll be putting links to all relevant, related posts:
- Serge Alternês and Alec Wainman, Live Souls
- Francisco Ayala, La cabeza del cordero
- Ramón Sender, Réquiem por un campesino español
- Javier Cercas, Soldados de Salamina
- Camilo José Cela, San Camilo, 1936 I
- Camilo José Cela, San Camilo, 1936 II
- Ana María Matute, Primera memoria
- André Malraux, Days of Hope I
- André Malraux, Days of Hope II
- Julio Llamazares, Luna de lobos
- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia I
- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia II
- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls I
- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls II
- Alberto Méndez, Los girasoles ciegos
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Another one that we just read and that gives an interesting perspective from a small village:
‘Pas Pleurer’ by Lydie Salvayre
http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2015/september/pas-pleurer-lydie-salvayre
i don’t see any woman’s point of view here… Martha A. Ackelsberg’s Free women of Spain would be a great addition. and if you’re interested in documentaries, here are two links:
De toda la vida (1986): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4oSVzmzW4
Vivir la Utopía (1997): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSIYJxknS4
Yup, you’re right. I had hoped to include Ana María Matute’s Primera memoria, but it didn’t fit, unfortunately.
There’s a sceptical (perhaps ‘postmodern’) rewriting of -Homage to Catalonia- in Part IV of Claude Simon’s novel -The Georgics- that would raise very interesting questions about history, memory, utopian political projects and their alleged foolishness etc. (a kind of antidote to Malraux, in that respect). However, it is a very long novel, only one part of which deals with the Spanish Civil War, so perhaps not ideal for an undergraduate readership. It is a beautfiully written book, though, and by a Nobel prizewinner, if that counts for anything.
Yes, my Head of Department (who has written on Simon) has been recommending that to me. In time.
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