La Guerra Civil en la última ficción narrativa española

Abstract

Since 2001, the year of publication of Javier Cerca’s novel Soldados de Salamina, there has been a marked increase in Spanish narrative on the Civil War. This shift is not merely quantitative. Relevant changes can also be noticed as regards treatment of the war itself, particularly in its relationship to the political present in Spain. This article aims at classifying these 21st-centurynovels according to the historical discourse implicit in their plots, characters and narrators’ position. In the second part, this article critically reviews certain questions raised by critics in relation to this body of work, as well as the most significant recent methodological and terminological approaches to the topic.