Golden Age Literature Research Articles

A Falangist View of Golden Age Literature

on the contemporary period and criticized enemy writers such as Ram6n P&rez de Ayala, they also devoted space to other literary epochs. Whenever possible the critics compared a classic work and the current scene. Thus Concha Espina found comfort in reading Alfonso el Sabio in the tiniebla dura en que vivimos (October 23, 1938), and Juan Pujol considered Franco as the modem Cid valeroso y caballeresco (February 13, 1937). Metaphorical comparisons between Fascist Spain and literary concepts abounded. F. Cortines Murube praised the profound originality of Pedro Mexia's Silva de varia leccidn. The action of bulls therein described recalls the