Abstract
The present article delves into the purge file on the Professor and literaty historian Angel Valbuena Prat. In 1943, Valbuena was forcefully removed from his teaching post at the Faculty of Arts in Barcelona and sent to that in Murcia. This administrative measure was mainly motivated by certain aspects of his Historia de la literatura espanola (A History of Spanish Literature; Barcelona, 1937). The analysis carried out in what follows throws light on how the repression enforced by Franco’s dictatorship affected the university life of the period, while simultaneously providing information on the reception and history of one of our most prestigious works of literary historiography in the 20th century.
Highlights
The present article delves into the purge file on the Professor and literaty historian Ángel Valbuena Prat
La primera nota decía en torno a la desaparición del poeta Luis Rodríguez de Figueroa: «En la guerra actual —1936, de las noticias que poseemos se desprende que ha sido fusilado por los rebeldes, en tierras de Canarias; hecho lamentable que habría que añadir a la serie que culmina en la muerte del gran Federico García Lorca» (1937b: 114, n. 2)
Gustavo Gili en escrito de 3 de octubre de 1940 que Valbuena adjuntaba a su contestación al pliego de cargos del juez depurador4: «En la actualidad, y de acuerdo con la Jefatura Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda, se convino substituir el medio pliego en que figura la nota aludida, forma en que se continúa vendiendo tan magna obra con el beneplácito de muchas personalidades del Movimiento Nacional.»
Summary
El profesor Ángel Valbuena Prat, catedrático de Lengua y Literatura Españolas de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Barcelona, fue trasladado forzosamente a la de Murcia por Orden del Ministerio de Educación Nacional fechada el 21 de enero de 1943
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