Las voces antiguas: La Guerra Civil española en algunas memorias y autobiografí­as del exilio literario de 1939

Abstract

In exile's autobiographies and memories, the vindication of spanish civil war apears as a moral duty in front of the general forgetfulness inside Spain. In the same way, its became a place to construct the subject's identity determinated by a lost past. The civil war narrative in José Moreno Villa Vida en claro (1944), Francisco Ayala Recuerdos y olvidos (1988), Marí­a Teresa León Memoria de la melancolí­a (1970), Teresa Pí mies Quan érem capitans (1974), Marí­a Lejárraga Una mujer por los caminos de España (1952) and Concha Méndez Memorias habladas, memorias armadas (1990) gets arduous war's events back in order to link with the recovery and the placement of the self.