Tomás Navarro Tomás, entre dos continentes

Abstract

The Spanish Civil War led a lot of people into exile and marked a before and after in their lives, many of whom had to a great extent reinvent themselves and as is the case of those mentioned here never returned to Spain. The United States of America and Mexico were two of the countries that received many of the Spanish intellectuals as was the case of Navarro Tomás and Giménez Siles, respectively. United through blood ties, both of them resolved to carry on their lives pursuing their careers as a university professor and researcher, and a bookseller and publisher; some of their friends, like Federico de Onís and Juan Ramón Jiménez, whom they were reunited with in exile, found a similar solution. All of them left Spain with their families and had to adjust to a new situation, to a new way of life and their grief for Spain. Epistolary writing, so frequent and common during XX Century, is an endless source of life stories, expressions of feelings, attitudes towards life in all its various facets of information.