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Quevedo wrote his Mundo caduco y desvaríos de la edad between 1621 and 1623. It is a historical text that details the first battles of the Thirty Years War, in which the Republic of Venice played an important role. In this text, the writer uses the historiographical concepts which were established by classic historians, such as Thucydides or Cornelius Tacitus, and which were brought back by Italian humanists like Leonardo Bruni: contemporaneousness, accuracy, impartiality, proximity between the narrative and the historian. The two aspects that this article focuses on are nationalism and religion. Quevedo presents a nationalistic and religious vision of the military conflict, in which he emphasizes the mission of the Spanish monarchs as defenders of the Catholic religion and the supremacy of the Habsburgs in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article offers an approximation to the complex phenomenon of exile provoked by the Spanish Civil War from a perspective that up now has been under-analysed: the study of the surviving letters revealing the personal feelings that the forced departure from the country provoked (fears, desires, hopes, uncertainties, anxieties, worries, states of mind, and so on). In order to realize this personal vision we have based our research on sources which until now have been insufficiently examined—namely, epistolaries. The study of these, whether as primary sources found in various archives in Catalonia or as edited collections, has allowed us to access personal and first-hand testimonies of the phenomenon of exile, which up to now has principally been treated from a collective perspective. The present analysis, focussing primarily on Catalans in the period between 1939 and 1946 (when hopes completely faded that the Allied victory would prompt an end to the Franco regime) reveals a common will: a yearning to return. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Already by mid-1938 all thinking Spaniards knew that the Republic could not win the war and that they were still fighting out of sheer determination not to give in until the very last moment. Everywhere could be heard voices, among them those of intellectuals and writers, which declared the Spanish and European situation to be extremely serious, and Anthony Beevor's recent book, ''The Battle for Spain,'' underscores the fact that the conflict had the powerful fascination of an epic drama. The fratricidal conflict resonated greatly with novelists, many of whom, recalling it with horror, captured it in their writings. In this article only four Spanish writers will be examined: Max Aub, Virgilio Botella Pastor, Ángel María de Lera and Xavier Benguerel, who took up the theme of how heart-breaking the end of the war was for those loyal to the Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Colombia may be characterized as a society ruled over by "a routinization of war and oblivion". When memories about violent events succeed in articulate themselves and transcend the private space, they are not necessarily incorporated to national memory through "memory policies" in transitional processes. These memories are "deposited" rather than discussed. Testimonial literature is one of those "deposits". There are times when certain topics, witnesses, authors and narrative treatments attain an unexpected relevance. Such a relevance follows national factors, like the dynamics of conflict and society in Colombia and abroad, such as a "turn to past". When making a survey across the development of the testimonial genre from mid-20th century Violence up to our times, the gravitation of several cultures of memory is made evident in a society where oblivion appears to prevail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El artículo trata la literatura de guerra en la Unión Soviética. El autor nombra varios libros de este género, entre ellos "La Carretera de Volokolamsk" de Alexander Bek así como "Un hombre de verdad" y "Somos hombres soviéticos" de Boris Polevoy. Asevera que esta literatura, que se escribió a mediados del siglo XX, sirvió para recordar a los socialistas los orígenes nobles de se causa en un momento cuando estos origines se habían transformado en desorden, escasez y totalitarismo.

Se presenta una crítica literaria de "La conciencia de Zeno" del italiano Italo Svevo, seudónimo de Ettore Schmitz. Se considera la trayectoria del protagonista, su recurrencia al psicoanálisis y su itinerario espiritual en el contexto de la primera guerra mundial. También se analiza la similitud del personaje central con el judío arquetípico del autor Weininger en su obra "Sexo y carácter."

El artículo presenta detalles sobre la exposición "Biblioteca en guerra" presentado por la Biblioteca Nacional de España durante 2005 y 2006. El artículo también habla del volumen "Biblioteca en guerra" que es una compilación de textos y fotografías de la Guerra Civil. Según el autor, las bibliotecas son como un instrumento de libertad.

The article discusses how war, in particular, the Spanish Civil War, is represented in literature and focuses on Mercè Rodoreda's novel "Cuánta, Cuánta guerra." The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of the biblical Cain as a representation of war and violence in Rodoreda's novel. It also attempts to analyze historical plurality by contrasting it with the narration that characterizes the fascist idea of national mythology.

Se presenta una lista de una serie de libros sobre eventos relacionados con la independencia de Colombia, llamada la "Colección Bicentenario" dirigida por el Ministerio de Educación Nacional de Colombia, incluyendo "200 años, 200 preguntas," "El alférez real" y "Atlas Histórico de Colombia."