Censorship and Sense-Making in Elena Soriano's Trilogy Mujer y hombre.

The present paper re-examines the work of postwar Spanish novelist, Elena Soriano, in light of Francoist censorship understood, after Bakhtin and Gadamer, as a practice that immures the forward movement of the word in search of ‘responsive understanding’. It also looks at the effects of the prevailing double moral standard in the censors' rulings taking as a case in point Soriano's trilogy,Mujer y hombre(1955). Last but not least, it raises questions about the role of a censor as a pre-publication reader of narratives driven by the need for a sympathetic addressee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]