- Docente: Eugenio Maggi
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/05
- Language: Spanish
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
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from Sep 29, 2025 to Dec 16, 2025
Learning outcomes
The student has a deep knowledge of Spanish Modern Literature with particular regard to the relationships between literary texts and history, language and the arts. She/he is able to use critical methodologies to read and analyze literary texts.
Course contents
The literary legacy of Spanish exile: from the chronicle of the Republican diaspora to the reconstruction of contemporary democratic memory.
- The literary testimony of the Spanish diaspora: Civil War, "Retirada" and Republican resistance.
- Exile literature and the universe of concentration camps: the cases of Max Aub (French camps) and Jorge Semprún (Buchenwald).
- The Cold War and eternal Francoism: the crisis of Republican exile between disenchantment and uchronic fantasies.
- Exile in the literature of contemporary historical memory: three case studies (Vázquez Montalbán, Cercas, Roca).
Readings/Bibliography
- Selection of short stories, plays and short writings by Max Aub, Luisa Carnés, Silvia Mistral and Jorge Semprún (available from Virtuale).
- Aub, Max, ‘Cuentos ciertos’, ed. by E. Maggi, Madrid, Cátedra, 2022.
- Cercas, Javier, ‘Soldados de Salamina’ (2001) [edited by Domingo Ródenas de Moya, Cátedra, 2017 and successive reprints].
- Roca, Paco, ‘Los surcos del azar’ (Astiberri, 2013 and successive reprints)
- Semprún, Jorge, ‘El largo viaje’ [‘Le grand voyage’, 1963], any edition in Spanish (current paperback edition: Austral)
- Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel, ‘Galíndez’ (1990) [any edition in Spanish].
Critical reference bibliography (NOT compulsory):
Caudet, F., El exilio republicano de 1939, Madrid, Cátedra, 2005.
Larraz, F., El monopolio de la palabra. El exilio intelectual en la España franquista, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2009.
Sánchez Zapatero, J., Escribir el horror: Literatura y campos de concentración. Barcelona, Montesinos, 2010.
Semprún, Jorge; Wiesel, Eli, Tacere è impossibile: dialogo sull'Olocausto. Parma, Guarda, 1996
Teaching methods
Traditional teaching (in Spanish) and student-led classes and seminars.
Assessment methods
Final exam (oral): students will prepare all the short texts (short stories, plays, novel excerpts and essays) available on Virtuale, which will be discussed in class in the form of a seminar, and will have to demonstrate general competences on the cultural and historical phenomena addressed throughout the course.
In addition, they will prepare comprehensively:
- Aub's book of short stories
- Semprún's novel
- ONE BOOK from the last section (Vázquez Montalbán, Cercas or Roca).
Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en ) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.
Teaching tools
Traditional teaching (in Spanish) with the use of digital texts; student-led classes; online platform with teaching materials.
Office hours
See the website of Eugenio Maggi