In the last few years a great number of novels dealing with the Spanish Civil War appeared in the literary market. It is a strange phenomenon, considering that the society that emerged after Franco’s dictatorship was like a society without memory, a society that turned the past into a taboo. However, at the end of the twentieth century, the Spanish society begun to organize itself in order to fight against oblivion, to recover the past. The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory was founded in 2000, and, a few years later, in 2007, during the administration of the president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (PSOE), the so-called Historical Memory Law was passed. This article tries to shed light on this literary phenomenon and how the Spanish Civil War is represented in these novels. The main objective of this article is to demonstrate how these novels reproduces two consensuses: the consensus of the Transition –based on amnesia, amnesty and equidistance–, and, on the other hand, the neoliberal consensus, that affirms we are living in post-political times and in the so-called “end of History”.
Keywords:
Spanish Civil War, historical memory, current Spanish novel, consensus of Transition, neoliberal consensus
Becerra Mayor, D. (2018). The spanish civil war in the current spanish novel. Between the consensus of the transition and the neoliberal consensus. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (98), pp. 73–103. Retrieved from https://rej.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/51828
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