Literature as a Response to Cultural and Political Repression in Franco's Catalonia

by Jordi Cornell-Detrell

A thoroughly researched and documented study of Catalan literature under the Franco regime, focussed on several key post-Civil War novels and their authors.

During the 1950s and 1960s, several key Catalan authors set about rewriting some of their narrative work despite the obstacles to publication in Catalan under the Franco regime. This study describes the social, political and cultural conditions that impelled Salvador Espriu, Xavier Benguerel,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855662019
• ISBN13: 9781855662018
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 236 Pages