SOURCE: Trippett, Anthony M. “Introduction.” In Adjusting to Reality: Philosophical and Psychological Ideas in the Post-Civil War Novels of Ramón J. Sender, pp. 13-21. London, United Kingdom: Tamesis, 1986.

In the following introduction to his full-length book on Sender's fiction after the Spanish Civil War, Trippett explains his study as an overview of past scholarship and a look at the themes of selected works.

Sender studies present a number of intriguing difficulties. The author was uncooperative with biographers¹ and sometimes rather unreliable when talking about himself. He was reluctant to polish his work once it was written² and yet often moved later either to repudiate³ it or re-use the material for different ends⁴. Then there is the sheer volume of it all—more than a hundred full-length books and uncollected articles by the thousand⁵—with a range and variety to match. Furthermore, the issues and passions of the...