- 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 30, 2024 to Dec 17, 2024
Course contents
The Literary Heritage of the Spanish Exile
A minimal (literary) chronicle of exile.
The literary testimony of the diaspora: Civil War, Retirada, republican militancy.
Banishment and transtierro: the Mexican case between uprooting and acclimatization.
Exile literature and the concentrationary universe: the cases of Max Aub (French camps) and Jorge Semprún (Buchenwald)
Readings/Bibliography
Selección de poemas y relatos de Luis Cernuda, León Felipe, Pedro Garfias, Max Aub y otros autores (disponibles en Virtuale)
Aub, Max, "Cuentos ciertos", ed. de E. Maggi, Madrid, Cátedra, 2022.
Semprún, Jorge, "El largo viaje" ["Le grand voyage", 1963], cualquier edición en español
Semprún, Jorge, "La escritura o la vida" ["L'écriture ou la vie", 1995], [fragmentos, disponibles en Virtuale]
Semprún, Jorge, "Viviré con su nombre, morirá con el mío" ["Le Mort qu'il faut", 2001], [fragmentos, disponibles en Virtuale]
Bibliografía crítica de referencia (NO ES obligatoria):
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
The student will have to participate in classes actively. This participation will contribute to the final evaluation.
Final exam (oral): students will prepare the short texts (poems, stories, novel extracts and essays) available on the Virtuale platform, which will be discussed in class in student-led seminars, and must demonstrate general competences about the cultural and historical phenomena addressed throughout the course.
In addition, they will prepare Aub's "Cuentos ciertos" and Semprún's "El largo viaje".
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