El presente volumen se imbrica dentro del proyecto de investigacion La historia de la literatura espanola y el exilio republicano de 1939. La finalidad de este proyecto supone una relectura critica e integradora de un legado de importancia tanto nacional como internacional. De este modo, implica a la historia literaria tanto de Espana como del resto de paises en que fueron acogidos nuestros exiliados, una diaspora que genero un corpus cuantitativa y cualitativamente relevante en algunos de los sistemas culturales mas importantes de Europa y de America. Por eso, este proyecto asume como parte de su finalidad una mejor comprension de la literatura espanola en un ambito internacional y comparatista de primer orden.

Mario Martín Gijón’s (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short pas-sionate lyrics describing a love lost and found. This might sound like nothing new in the history of poetry, but the poet immerses us in his story by a complex process of linguistic recreation: recreation in the sense of re-invention and recreation also as play, or playfulness.          Eduardo Moga explains his method: ‘The poetry of Mario Martín Gijón is characterised by a morphological promiscuity which springs from an intense awareness of the susceptibility of language to experiment. Words become lexical clay in the hands of the poet, or articulated entities into which other words may be telescoped. Words break, unscrew, crumble onto the page like sand. They are like scattered pieces of a mosaic reassembled to form a new puzzle. This is done by the insertion of brackets around letters, slashes allowing a choice between letters, dashes severing or connecting syllables, suffixes or prefixes belonging equally to the words surrounding them. It multiplies the ways in which a phrase can be read, multiplies its potential simultaneous meanings.� So the poet is able to juggle the memory of pleasure with present suffering, joy and pain in a single verse: (pre/es/ab)sence. Ambiguity striving for synchronicity, the language of love becoming as fraught with contradiction as love itself.