I libri assenti. Editoria italiana e letteratura spagnola negli anni di Franco

Authors

Luca Cerullo Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Keywords:

Francoism, reception, Spanish literature, translation, exile

Abstract

The absent books. Italian publishing and Spanish literature in the years of Franco

The text tries to offer an overview of Italian translations of Spanish literary works in the years of Francoism. The ideological distance, which characterizes Italy and Spain in such decisive years (1939-1975), creates a gradual lack of interest on the part of Italian publishers towards what is written in Spain. The perception in Italy of Spanish narrative is therefore partial and reveals a considerable difference between the authors who write within the Spanish borders and the authors in exile, as well as demonstrating the absence, at least until 1975, of a programmatic plan of translations.

Author Biography

Luca Cerullo, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Luca Cerullo is research fellow at the University of Naples "L’Orientale" and contract professor of Spanish literature at the University of Naples "Federico II". PhD in Romance Literature since 2013, counts among the main publications, L’impossibile ritorno. Itinerari dell’esilio romeno nella tradizione ispanica (2016); La Romania raccontata dal rifugio spagnolo: lo spazio dell’esilio nell’opera narrativa di Vintila Horia, in Ofelia Ichim and Florin-Teodor Olariu, Linguistic and Cultural Contacts in the Romanian Space — Romanian Linguistic and Cultural Contacts in the European Space (2016).