![]() Trapiello thus manages to address the question of responsibility, the uses and abuses of memory, the relationship between history and fiction in a radically critical and democratic fashion. The omniscient narrator disappears, leaving the space to a plurality of points of view, one for each character of the novel. But the story is not told from a sectarian perspective. The story springs from the casual encounter of the son of a Republican victim with one of the murderers of his father, seventy years after the events. To address these issues, my paper will analyse Andrés Trapiello’s 'Ayer no más' (2012), a novel which represents the current and past “civil wars” through a multiplicity of voices. ![]() Nowhere is this lack of nuanced vision more evident than in the debate around the Spanish Civil, and in the way in which political parties and ordinary citizens discuss and remember the war. In an article entitled Conmigo, o contra mí (2013), Arturo Pérez-Reverte denounced the Spanish tendency to classify any person or idea into two radically opposed factions, to pigeonhole our interlocutor, to see the world in terms of sealed-off blocs. ![]() Eighty years after its outbreak, the Spanish Civil War continues to reverberate through Spain as a political and moral conflict, as a divided memory, and as a cultural attitude. ![]()
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