Isaac Rosa contro la letteratura sulla guerra civile

• Main Author: Paolo La Valle
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli Studi di Cagliari 2015-11-01
• Series: Between
• Subjects: Isaac Rosa; guerra civile; mercato; politica
• Online Access: http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/1888

Since the last decade of 20th century, the memory of the civil war and Franquismo have been the main themes in Spanish literature. At the beginning this kind of literature helped to put an end to the so called ‘pacto de olvido’, as the authors and their novels were part of a huge movement questioning Spanish recent history. But after a first moment this literature may have become a trend, pushed by literary industry.  In 2007 Isaac Rosa published a novel called ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil!, a re-edition of his first novel La malamemoria containing a cynical and sarcastic comment to it. As the title suggest the book has a critical approach to the "memory novel" and to the cultural industry that invested on it. Through a complex auto-fictional mechanism, Rosa asks for the reader’s participation in process of re-elaboration of the past. By doing this, he moves his attention from the contents of the historical narratives to their forms, questioning the role of literature in contemporary societies.