Abstract EN:

The civil war of 1936-1939 and world war ii modified the representation of spain in the novel. At firts, our study depicts a spain that is distant, inaccessible and lost through a look at historical novels and works from the franco period which have distinct literary and ideological imperatives. Then, our analysis turns to focus particularly on the r ole of spanish language, painting, literature and bullfights. In so doing, it highlights some reverent authors and some impertinent ones. Only a few authors, however, were truly innovative. On the whole, we gain insight into the mysteries of the novel thanks to the vertigo of the narrator's identity that creates a familiar rather than strange relationship w ith spain, thanks to an amorous voyage that rejuvenates the stereotyptes of spain, and thanks finally to the work of ci. Simon which, in its portrayal of the civil war and spanish places, calls into question the experience of history and story-telling. The classic themes that are continually present in the representation of spain undergo a metamorphosis that gives rise to deep-seated fears, the anguish of solitude, and the confrontation - within the realm of memory and consciousness - between death and forgetting. The novel about spain renders an account of spain's brush with chaos as well as its search for order.