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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2012  
         
  Article:   FERNÁNDEZ FLÓREZ’S AN ISLAND IN THE RED SEA: A DOUBLY BITTER FRUIT OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR / UNA ISLA EN EL MAR ROJO, POR W. FERNÁNDEZ FLÓREZ: UN FRUTO DOBLEMENTE AMARGO DE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA.

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  Abstract:  Fernández Flórez’s An Island in the Red Sea: a doubly bitter fruit of the Spanish Civil War. The paper analyses and revalues a novel written during the civil war and about the civil war, a “committed novel” and an actual indictment of the Republic and its men carried from an ideological perspective that – at least as literary history and criticism state – practically nullifies its esthetic value. In particular, my aim here is to emancipate a “propaganda novel” from this reductionist condemn – which, emphasizing its propagandistic character, seems to forget that the writing is dealing with is still a novel -, by uncovering some of those traits ignored by the scholars that allow its esthetic recovery. More broadly, I try to make out of this particular case the starting point of a future literary analysis of the committed novels more deprived of preconceptions.

Keywords: Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, “An Island in the Red Sea”, committed novel, ideology, Spanish civil war 

  
         
     
         
         
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