1st Edition
France and the Spanish Civil War Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936–1945
By Martin Hurcombe
Copyright 2011
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individuals addressed national anxieties and shaped the French political landscape. Bringing together reportage, essays, and fiction by French supporters of Franco's Nationalists and of the Spanish Republic,... Read more
Introduction Importing the Spanish Civil War; Chapter 1 ), pp. 256–67.; Chapter 2 The Art of War: The Novels of Frondaie and Maulvault; Chapter 3 The Birth of International Fascism: From Brasillach to Drieu la Rochelle; Chapter 4 From Republican Solidarity towards the Totalitarian Republic: The French Left and the Spanish Republic; Chapter 5 Fellow-Travelling to Spain: Malraux, L’Espoir and the Civil War; Chapter 6 Beyond the Spanish Republic: Journey’s End and New Departures; Chapter 7 Lessons in the Darkness: Bernanos’s Les Grands Cimeti¨res sous la lune and Poll¨s’s Toute guerre se fait la nuit; Epil Epilogue Decisions in the Dark: Sartre’s ‘Le Mur’;
Biography
Martin Hurcombe is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol, UK and author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War and co-editor of Sébastien Japrisot: The Art of Crime.
'Hurcombe analyzes texts from far-right, clearly pro-Nationalist writers, as well as from left-wing authors whose allegiance fell unambiguously on the Republican side, and, in a very interesting final chapter, from authors on both sides whose ideas found themselves challenged by what they observed. As a result, the whole book provides an illuminating portrait of the various political factions and tensions that animated France in those years and beyond.' David Caron, University of Michigan, USA '... of interest to anyone studying Spanish exiled writers in France (such as playwright Fernando Arrabal) and wanting to gain a thorough background knowledge of the historical shifts inflecting and shaping such writers’ oeuvres. [This book] surely have a long-lasting influence on the fields of war studies and Spanish Civil War studies...' French Studies '... this magnificent study makes a valuable contribution to the non-canonical works about the Spanish Civil War. Its richness lies in Hurcombe’s approach to studying the Civil War as an international phenomenon through the lens of a foreign outsider.' Hispania
