Writing and Politics in Franco’s Spain

Between 1940 and 1965, Spain was almost entirely cut off from the intellectual life of western Europe. Within Spain itself, opposition writers believed that a committed literature could take over the role of the press in a democratic society, dealing with daily realities and social issues as well as with political questions. This was the background to the emergence in the 1950s of the novela social , Spain’s post-war realist novel. First published in 1990, Writing and Politics in Franco’s Spain