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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...
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