Palabras entre las bombas: crónicas sobre la guerra civil española de Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, Raúl González Tuñón y Juvencio Valle

Abstract

This article presents the panorama in which Spanish American writers who moved to Spain as Civil War correspondents produced their work. Most of these chronicles, now largely forgotten, are hybrid compositions that stand half way between literature and journalism (a rather obscure frontier). This paper examines bibliography on the subject, poses a theoretical basis of analysis and offers a set of examples which clearly pursue an aesthetic purpose. It does so by focusing on the work of the Cuban Pablo de la Torriente Brau, the Argentinian Raúl González Tuñón and the Chilean Juvencio Valle.