Mirando la esfera de las horas: literatura, tiempo y antifascismo en el Bienio Negro

Abstract

This text attempts to be an invitation to think about a temporal experience that claims to be historically thought in order to articulate the resistance against fascism. First of all, I will introduce the discussion of the definition of the republican project, by studying the implications of the term it applied to itself: revolution. With this, I will introduce Ehrenburg’s view of the tensions of the time as a temporary pathology. Later, I will outline the antifascist political culture through the magazines Linea and Nueva Cultura. Then, I will approach Historia de un dia (Sender et al., 1935) and explain the link between the representations of time and the people. Afterwards, I will proceed to explain the poetry collection Candente horror (Gil-Albert, 1936) as a conflict between sensitivity and will, emphasizing its link with the historical antifascist gaze. The conclusion indicates the contrast between two points of view of the historical conflict that were joined together under the same front of cultural resistance.