Franquismo y guerra civil en dos novelas rosas: Idilio bajo el terror (1938) y María Victoria (1940), de Josefina de la Torre

Abstract

In this article, the theme of war is analyzed in two romance novels by Josefina de la Torre, Idilio bajo el terror (1938) and María Victoria (1940), being a scarcely addressed issue by critics that proves to be of interest, as there were few women who wrote about the conflict. The works fall within the subgenre of “novela rosa de guerra” and, in the case of the first one, also in “literatura de embajada”. Both exhibit a propagandistic objective, as they idealize the insurgent faction and degrade the republican one. Their approaches differ, given that Idilio bajo el terror is more explicitly politicized than María Victoria.