Generation of '36
Illustration — Miguel's Pencil. Oil painting by Ramón Fernández Palmeral The Generation of '36 (Generación del 36) is the name given to a group of Spanish artists, poets and playwrights who were working about the time of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The Generation of '36 was a literary movement that suffered harsh criticism and persecution that followed from the division of neighbours into winners and losers in the various battles of that struggle, as well as from the physical hardships and moral miseries arising from social instability and political chaos.
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Illustration — Miguel's Pencil. Oil painting by Ramón Fernández Palmeral The Generation of '36 (Generación del 36) is the name given to a group of Spanish artists, poets and playwrights who were working about the time of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The Generation of '36 was a literary movement that suffered harsh criticism and persecution that followed from the division of neighbours into winners and losers in the various battles of that struggle, as well as from the physical hardships and moral miseries arising from social instability and political chaos.
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Ricardo Gullón listed some of the authors associated with this movement since he was closely associated as a contributor and a literary critic of the genre. The Generation of '36 had membership criteria that were not rigid, but the label provides a convenient portfolio of the cultural and literary style of the contemporary period, covering individual works, literary collections, magazines, journals newspapers and other publications that document the experiences of creative people working during the difficult and frightening civil war.
The poets of Generación del 36 include: • Miguel Hernández • Luis Rosales • Leopoldo Panero and Juan Panero • Luis Felipe Vivanco • Ildefonso-Manuel Gil • Germán Bleiberg • José Antonio Muñoz Rojas • José María Luelmo • Pedro Pérez Clotet • Rafael Duyos • Celso Amieva • Gabriel Celaya • Arturo Serrano Plaja • José Herrera Petere • Juan Gil-Albert
Raconteurs
Raconteurs
Famous Generación del 36 raconteurs: • Camilo José Cela • Gonzalo Torrente Ballester • Miguel Delibes
Dramatists and playwrights
Dramatists and playwrights
Performance works of the epoch included Antonio Buero Vallejo.
Important contributors
Important contributors
Others who started working at the end or after the Civil War include the Garcilasismo group and: • Dionisio Ridruejo • José Luis Cano • Ramón de Garciasol • Pedro Laín Entralgo • Juan López Morillas • José Luis Aranguren • Julián Marías • Juan Rof Carballo • Segundo Serrano Poncela • Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño • José Suárez Carreño • Jorge Campos (writer) • Ernesto Guerra da Cal • José Manuel Blecua
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The writers of prose included in Generación del 36: • Enrique Azcoaga • José Antonio Maravall • Antonio Sánchez Barbudo • Ramón Faraldo • Eusebio García Luengo • María Zambrano • Antonio Rodríguez Moñino • José Ferrater Mora • Ricardo Gullón • Carmen LaFloret
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- 1.Harvsp Ruiz Soriano 1997 p=15 .
- 2.Hora de España. Ediciones Turner. 1975. 978-84-85137-11-4.
- 3.Francisco Caudet Yarza. Presentación de la Hora de España, nº23. cvc.cervantes.es. 1974.
- 4.Martín Ynestrillas. Jerarquía: La revista negra de La Falange, Con José Luis Orella. cens-viejaguardia.blogspot.co.uk, Blog du Centro de Estudios Nacionales Sindicalistas. 2011.
- 5.Ignacio Soldevila-Durante. Para la renovación de la historiografía de la literatura: la generación de 1936 en sus comienzos. Cervantes virtual. 2011.
- 6.Antonio Machado. Consejos, sentencias y donaires de Juan de Mairena y de su maestro Abel Martín. Filosofia.org. 2000.
- 7.Harvsp Gullón 1965 p=24 .
- 8.2 Escritoras españolas más relevantes de la Generación del 36. Libreando Club. 2020-12-04.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- La generación valenciana del 36. Institución Alfonso el Magnánimo (Valencia) = Institució Alfons el Magnànim (Valencia). 2003. 978-84-7822-401-2.
- La generación del 36. Liceus, Servicios de Gestión y Comunicación. 2006. 978-84-9822-392-7.
- Ricardo. Gullón. La generación española del 36. Ínsula. Madrid. 224, 225. juillet. 1965. 6 novembre 2014. oui.
- Sobre una generación de escritores (1936-1960). Institución «Fernando el católico» (C.S.I.C.), Diputación de Zaragoza. 2013.
- Federico Melchor : testimonio de un avida : la generación del 36 que se enfrentó al fascismo. Ediciones de Intervención Cultural. 2010. 978-84-92616-70-1.
- La generación del 36. Ediciós do Castro. 1989. 978-84-7492-419-0.
- La generación del 36. Ediciones Endymion. 1993. 978-84-7731-162-1.
- La poesía de postguerra. Editorial Montesinos. 1997. 978-84-89354-38-8.
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