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

This is a major English study of the novels of the Spanish Civil War.

Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgement; Introduction;

1. Literature, history and war;
2. Literature, commitment and propaganda;
3. Literary genre, narrative technique and language in the first-wave Civil War novel;
4. Myth creation and reinforcement in the Nationalist novel;
5. Commitment and propaganda in the Republican novel;
6. The gods that failed: disillusionment in the novel of the Civil War;
7. The novel as chronicle: Gironella's trilogy;
8. The novel as symbol: La cabeza del cordero;
9. Irrationalism and anti-historicism in the later novel of the Civil War (1967-1975); Conclusion; Appendix; Glossary of Civil War terms; Bibliography; Index.