Mientras los hombres mueren: Carmen Conde

Carmen Conde is a major figure in twentieth-century Spanish poetry. Though neglected up to now, Mientras los hombres mueren is the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It was first published, in a limited edition, in Italy in 1953. Though it has been included in its entirety in anthologies of her work published in Spain in 1967, 1986 and 2007, this is the first free-standing edition since 1953 and the first ever critical edition.

The collection was written in 1938-39, in Valencia, then the seat of the Republican Government. In prose poetry densely packed with imagery of nightmarish destruction, Conde gives voice to the experience of women and children suffering bombardment from air and sea, hunger and homelessness, and the loss of husbands, brothers and fathers at the front. The second half of the collection, 'A los niños muertos en la guerra', is an extended elegy for all those children killed in bombing raids during the war.

This edition will be of interest to students and scholars of the Civil War and lovers of Spanish poetry in general.

Author: Jean Andrews
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780719077524
ISBN10: 0719077524
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | European | Spanish & Portuguese

About the Author

Jean Andrews is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Nottingham