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"Requiem per un campesino espanol" was first published under the
title Mosen Millan in Coleccion Aquelarre,Mexico, 1953. The present
text follows the first Spanish edition published by Destino,
Barcelona, 1974, which bears a few minor variants, mainly in
paragraph structure. It has been reprinted a number of times and
translated into many languages and is one of the most widely read
Spanish texts in the 20th century. This edition is aimed primarily
at sixth-formers and university undergraduates and the introduction
and notes have been compiled in the light of recent socio-politial
topic-based syllabuses and communication studies courses. The
inclusion in the introduction of a substantial section on the now
out-of-print "Contraataque" (1937), the wartime narrative which
contains the germ of the post-war novel, is intended to provide the
student with a context for the study of the process in Sender's
writing inspired by the Civil War - from explicit militant
propaganda penned in the heat of battle to implicit poetic parable,
historical emotion recollected in the comparative tranquillity and
distance of exile. It is hoped that such a juxtaposition will
illuminate both the content and literary achievement of "Requiem".
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This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.
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To read Iman (1930) by Ramon J. Sender is to sail into a
vertiginous trip within the darkest aspects of the human being. A
man, a soldier striving to survive along endless days and nights in
a desert landscape, without further protection besides his scarce
strengths, surrounded by death, violence, horror. A shockingly
compelling novel, both harsh and beautiful, written in a prose that
attains lyricism heights seldom seen in war novels, that has the
power to immerse the reader into the nameless world that lies
beyond the madness frontier. With this, his first novel Ramon J.
Sender (Spain 1901- USA 1982) immediately became one of the most
important XX Century Spanish novelists. Iman, a novel full of
aggravation provoked by the senseless powers that ruled Spain,
sympathetic towards those who died, accuser against those who took
advantage of the young lives of the Spanish people, played a key
role in the Spanish monarchy fall and the subsequent arrival of the
Republic. But its literary and universal claim values make it stand
as the chronicle of the unleashed barbarism inherent to each and
every war. Almost a century after the narrated episodes it still
makes for a reading that leaves no room for indifference. In this
edition the introductory study by Borja Rodriguez Gutierrez and the
footnotes allow the modern reader to grasp and enjoy the Sender
text in its full masterpiece magnitude.
Rquiem por un campesino espaol, a short, elegant and moving account
of the tragic effects of the Spanish Civil War on a small Aragonese
population, is often called Ramn J. Sender's greatest masterpiece.
It was the author's own favorite book and -in his own words- of all
his novels it is "the simplest, and the most universal." This
characteristic of "universality" flows through all Sender's
writings, while he manages to still be the most Spanish of the
generation that began to write just before the onset of the Spanish
Civil War of 1936-39. As a journalist who allied himself with the
Republican side in the Spanish civil war, Sender (1901-82) was a
privileged eyewitness to Spain's struggle, suffering and defeat, a
situation he continued to write about after he left Spain in 1938.
While his texts are considered essential source material by
historians of this era, at the same time, the anguish and pain,
losses and victories of the profoundly Spanish characters are
portrayed as universal emotions and experiences that continue to
move readers of all nationalities. Within Hispanic literature,
Rquiem por un campesino espaol (first published in Mexico in 1953,
banned in Spain for many years) is considered to stand on a par
with Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea within North American
literature. Both are brief and profound, and recount intense,
dramatic stories that initially seem uncomplicated. They are both
important novels that in their brevity and apparent simplicity
continue to resonate with essential truths. Three qualities of the
novel are emphasized in the essay by Prof. Borja Rodrguez Gutirrez
that introduces this edition: the story's meticulous, mathematical
structure devised by a self aware writer; its use of reiteration of
certain key elements; and the carefully structured allegory with
which it transmits its denunciation of the injustice and treachery
that underlie history. The careful lexicographic notes included
will help the modern reader grasp the plot in all its dramatic,
Spanish, intensity.
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