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TY - JOUR
T1 - The 'Truth' of the Past
T2 - Fiction as an Alternative to History in Contemporary Spanish Narratives of the Civil War and the Holocaust
AU - O'Donoghue, Samuel
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article explores the debates regarding the use of fiction to represent traumatic twentieth-century experiences. Through an analysis of Jorge Semprún's Quel beau dimanche (1980) and L'écriture ou la vie (1994), Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sefarad (2001) and Alberto Méndez's Los girasoles ciegos (2004), it interrogates the value and morality of contemporary Spanish novelists' use of fiction to explore the past. At the same time, this article seeks to build on a nascent field of critical investigation by drawing links between how novelists have written about two different historical experiences: the Spanish Civil War and the Holocaust.
AB - This article explores the debates regarding the use of fiction to represent traumatic twentieth-century experiences. Through an analysis of Jorge Semprún's Quel beau dimanche (1980) and L'écriture ou la vie (1994), Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sefarad (2001) and Alberto Méndez's Los girasoles ciegos (2004), it interrogates the value and morality of contemporary Spanish novelists' use of fiction to explore the past. At the same time, this article seeks to build on a nascent field of critical investigation by drawing links between how novelists have written about two different historical experiences: the Spanish Civil War and the Holocaust.
KW - Spanish Civil War
KW - holocaust
KW - trauma
KW - history
KW - fiction
U2 - 10.1080/14682737.2016.1200856
DO - 10.1080/14682737.2016.1200856
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 322
EP - 338
JO - Hispanic Research Journal
JF - Hispanic Research Journal
SN - 1468-2737
IS - 4
ER -