Soldados y padres

With sensitivity, knowledge and a willingness to understand the great tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, this illuminating essay reconstructs the participation of the parents of several writers who fought as soldiers in the war, addressing parent-child relationships that include both personal admiration and temperamental affinity, such as affective detachment and ideological conflict. José Jurado Morales investigates the memories that children keep of their parents and the stories that they told them about their experiences in the trenches of one or the other side. The book talks about parents and children, war and poetry, Spain and its writers, past and present, collective memory and personal identity, based on the family memories of Joan Margarit, Jane Durán, Jorge Urrutia, Jacobo Cortines, Miguel d'Ors, Pere Rovira, Andrés Trapiello, Antonio Jiménez Millán and Julio Llamazares. Nine poets who have used the inherited stories to investigate their origins, highlighting the deep trace of a conflict whose consequences have not ceased to be projected in contemporary life.