Ramón José Sender | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Ramón José Sender.

Ramón José Sender | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Ramón José Sender.
This section contains 4,272 words
(approx. 15 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Mary S. Vasquez

SOURCE: Vasquez, Mary S. “Ramón Sender and Wartime Defenses: Contraataque as Fictive Autobiography.” In Critical Essays on the Literatures of Spain and Spanish America, pp. 225-33. Boulder, Colo.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991.

In the following essay, Vasquez separates the real from the fictional aspects of Contraataque, finding it less a piece of propaganda than a careful attempt at self-justification on the part of the author.

Ramón Sender's 1938 Contraataque must be the most quickly dismissed, misread, and, I feel certain, unread, of all his non-essay works. And, in fact, those critics who through the decades set Contraataque aside after a phrase or a sentence, deeming it unworthy of any genuine scrutiny, consistently classified it within the essay genre, albeit as a perhaps more dashing sub-species, the propagandistic war chronicle and panegyric. I have argued elsewhere for a view of Contraataque as a novel.1 The focus...

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