Domaine espagnol: avatares de una frustrada antología sobre literatura española de la primera mitad del siglo XX

Abstract

In 1943, a series of anthologies began to be published in Lausanne that collected the most outstanding literary production from various European countries since the beginning of the century. Such anthologies were ideologically marked as they sought to become an intellectual battering ram against the Nazism that was then subjugating France and other countries. Among the anthology projects was one dedicated to Spain that was initially entrusted to the French Hispanist Louis Parrot. After his death in 1947, his successor was another Hispanist: Paul Verdevoye. The contact of both with the Spanish writer exiled in Buenos Aires Guillermo de Torre offers us first-hand information about the vicissitudes suffered by the project that, in the end, did not materialize. What remains of it is an exhaustive list of works and authors that give us an idea about the content of the frustrated anthology.