Say That We Saw Spain Die: Literary Consequences of the Spanish Civil War

xi, 208 pp. The poems, memoirs, novels and stories that emerged from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) depict the great hopes that arose with the Spanish resistance to the military revolt and the early determination that this time democracy would not surrender to fascism without a struggle. The frustration of these hopes, the author contends, has had a permanent and significant effect on later writings.