Camilo José Cela, Blas de Otero and Antonio Buero Vallejo revolutionized the novel, the poetry and the drama of the postwar period.

This year we celebrate their hundredth anniversaries.

The celebration of a first hundredth anniversary has the undoubtedly power of remind us of our mortality, at least for those of us who are already over fifty. By the end of the murky Sixties, the commemoration of the great writers of the nineteenth century elicited disputes, consecrations, and anathemas around the role of the intelligentsia in politics, when such a thing has been made into forbidden fruit by the Franco regime. The one hundredth anniversaries of the writers of the Generation of ’14 that dominated the ‘80s illuminated –in a much more optimist environment – a happy confluence of life, literature and civic engagement. And the celebration of the Generation of ’27 and their peers –just at the threshold between the past and the present centuries – marked a noticeable index of self-complacency and euphoria based on other’s creativity.

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