Antonio Vilanova. "La letra y el espíritu (1950-1960). Letras universales". Prólogo de Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez. Alba Guimerá, Gemma Márquez y Blanca Ripoll Madrid, eds. Madrid. Devenir el otro, 2014. 309 páginas.

Abstract

La letra y el espíritu (1950-1960). Letras universales is the book reviewed on this occasion. Written by Antonio Vilanova, with whom other authors have collaborated, it is a review of Franco's Spain in cultural, artistic and ideological terms. Despite the little intellectual development that occurred in those years, some figures who fought as much as they could against the system are rescued here. The articles by Vilanova that the foreword, Adolfo Sotelo Vázquez, is in charge of commenting on are very noteworthy. In addition to being Ortegan, Vilanova analyzes the novelists and writers of this time at the international level (especially European) and explains the influences they had in Spain, from Camus and Sartre to Faulkner, among others. The book itself is a call to have another perspective of this dismal decade to stop seeing it simply from the horror of the postwar.