La creación literaria de Estanislao Lluesma Uranga: memoria republicana y perspectiva trasnacional

ABSTRACT Though largely forgotten today and still partly unpublished, the literary works of Estanislao Lluesma Uranga, a Spanish Republican who went into exile in Argentina in 1939, constitute a valuable contribution to testimonial literature, as well as an interesting example of cosmopolitan writing. Known mainly on account of his work in the field of medicine and his publications of a scientific nature, Lluesma Uranga also wrote several books of poetry, a play and a novel during his exile in Argentina. Closely tied to the Republican cause and to the aim of testimony, Lluesma Uranga’s writing exhibits throughout a characteristically transnational perspective, and tends to reflect a certain ambiguity with regard to identity. In his first work, the collection of poetry Palestra y Balcón (1945), the experience of the Spanish Civil War constitutes the central theme. Yet even in this work the use of different geographical and cultural settings is quite noteworthy, as is the expression of a broad, supranational standpoint, which situates itself in multiple spaces and views the effects of fascism and war from diverse perspectives. Subsequent works, such as the unpublished novel Arco de tiempo (1961) or the similarly unpublished dramatic work Olvido Rodríguez (1964), display the full development of these tendencies.