Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 42 | 112 | 2019
Research Article | Literature and Memory. Pedra de tartera, by Maria Barbal, and the Memory of the Spanish Civil War

Literature and Memory. Pedra de tartera, by Maria Barbal, and the Memory of the Spanish Civil War

Maria Barbal’s Pallars Cycle has its origin in Pedra de tartera. In this cycle Barbal creates a literary universe which recovers lost space and time: rural life in the Pyrenees during the mid-20th century. Main threads articulating this cycle are the Spanish Civil War and rural exodus. Both events relate Pedra de tartera with memory narratives that deal with remembrance and testimonies of war and its aftermath. The article aims to ground the relationship between the novel’s structuring of war memory through literary reconstruction of the past, fictionalizations of memory and relationship between historic and literary facts.


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Submitted: Feb. 2, 2019 | Accepted: Sept. 18, 2019 | Published: Dec. 4, 2019 | Language: ca

Keywords Spanish Civil War Narratives of Memory Narratives de la memòria | Guerra Civil espanyola Maria Barbal Pyrenees Pirineus Novel·la catalana Catalan novel

Copyright © 2019 Montserrat Gatell Perez. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2019/112/011


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