Sartre,engagement and the Spanish realist novel of the I950s

For a more detailed description of the publishing history of Qu'est-ce que la littérature?, see Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka , Les Écrits de Sartre. Chronologie. Bibliographie commentée (Paris: Gallimard, 1970), 160-61 and 184-5.

Juan Goytisolo , El furgón de cola (Paris: Ediciones Ruedo Ibérico, 1967), 34

For a stimulating discussion of pre-war Spanish Modernism, see, John Butt , Writers and Politics in Modern Spain (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1978), especially pp. 18-32.

See, Tony Bennett , Formalism and Marxism (London: Methuen, 1979) and Aesthetics and Politics (London: New Left Books, Verso, 1977) for outlines of the debates and trends.

Oscar Barrero Pérez , La novela existencial española de postguerra ( Madrid: Gredos, 1987), chapter I, 13-39.

See, Santos Sanz Villanueva , Historia de la novela social española (I942-I975 , 2 vols (Madrid: Alhambra, 1980);

Pablo Gil Casado , La novela social española (I920-I97I (Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1973);

José Maria Martinez-Cachero , La novela española entre I936 y I980. Historia de una aventura ( Madrid: Castalia, 1985 ).

Darío Villanueva , "El Jarama" de Sánchez Ferolosio: su estructura y significado, ( Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1973), 110.

Jean-Paul Sartre , Qué es la literatura? (Buenos Aires; Losada, 1950). In the summary of Sartre's ideas, I have referred to the original Situations II. Qu'estce que la littérature ? (Paris: Gallimard , 1948, reprinted 1972). All textual references are to this 1972 edition.

See, for example, Christina Howells , Sartre's Theory of Literature (London: M.H.R.A., 1979 ) and Rhiannon Goldthorpe , Sartre: Literature and Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).

Barrero Pérez , op. cit, 31.

Barrero Pérez , op. cit, 38.

Ramón Ayza , "Sartre en el Indice", La Hora , 2a época, v (3/XII/1948), 14;

Ramón Roquer , "Insinceridad del existencialismo", Revista, vi (22/V/ 1952), 3;

Angel Zuñiga , 'Le diable et le bon dieu', Destino, 727 (14/VII/ 1951), 18.

Alfonso Sastre , Drama y Sociedad (Madrid : Taurus, 1956), 14.

On Laye, see José Maria Castellet , "Breu história de la revista Laye", L'Avenç, vi ( 1977), 46-7;

Laureano Bonet , "La revista Laye y la novela española de los años cincuenta", Insula, cccxcvi/cccxcvii (November-December, 1979), 8

and also Barry Jordan , "Laye: els intellectuals i el compromís", Els Marges , xvii (1979), 3-26.

José Maria Castellet , Notas sobre literatura española contemporánea (Barcelona; Ediciones Laye, 1955) and La hora del lector (Barcelona ; Seix Barral, 1957). All textual references in the body of this article are taken from these editions.

Juan Goytisolo , Problemas de la novela ( Barcelona; Seix Barral, 1959). All references are to this edition.

Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio , "Una primera novela: Los brasvos", Correo Literario, 2a época, vi (1954), cited in Dario Villanueva, 49-50.