Abstract

In this study, I primarily aim to approach the symptoms of trauma caused by the Spanish Civil War experience depicted in three volumes of postwar literature; Nada by Carmen Laforet, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Thus three authors come from different nations ─one native Spanish, others English and American, and therefore foreigners in Spain─, with different gender, and hence their memories and perspectives on the war may differ in broad terms. Nevertheless, these writers did recreate psychological aftermath due to the war in their literary works in equal. Since thus works set trauma as one of their main themes, I also target to examine the possibility of recovery and how it occurs in each composition. Through the aforementioned comparative investigation concerning the literary works from writers of distant standings, I anticipate reconstructing the post-Spanish Civil War memory and trauma, and reach the bottom of the essence of violence, and at last, explore the possibility of recovery of the victims exposed to the extreme extent of violence.

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