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José Belmonte Serrano, principal investigator of the group 'Literary and Artistic Creation.
Reading Animation '(CLYA) of the University of Murcia (UMU), discover 9 unpublished letters from Ramón J. Sender to José Luis Castillo-Puche.
The study, published in the most widely disseminated American magazine in humanities Hispania, breaks down a material that has become the political-social and literary heritage of the author.
The literary critic considers his research as pulling the thread of an invisible ball and his laboratory, the sources.
In this way, the letters were addressed through the authors' own books and using various contextual bibliographies to examine the new discoveries.
A qualitative method to analyze both the opinion of the novelist about Spain, and the development of his own work.
Of these missives highlights the concern for his return to Spain, how they were going to transform their savings in dollars to the Spanish pesetas.
"He is hopeful with the recently inaugurated parliamentary monarchy, with certain praise for King Juan Carlos and Suarez, and it is important that he make his ideology very clear, far from his communist ideas," the philologist points out.
On the other hand, enthusiasm for their own novels and the possibility that they are published without censorship, in Spain.
For the professor of the UMU "the great repercussion of the finding is the result of chance, like the botanist who goes out to the street and finds a tree that he did not know".
Belmonte Serrano accompanied Douglas LaPrade, an expert from the University of Texas, in the search of correspondence between Hemingway and Castillo-Puche, when he found the material of the Aragonese writer.
Ramón José Sender Garcés was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his novel 'Requiem for a Spanish peasant' is considered one of the best works in Spanish of the 20th century.
In 1939 Sender went into exile in the United States, where he was granted US citizenship.
Forty years later, Castillo-Puche was the commissioner in charge of his return, but Sender died shortly before achieving it.
The days without literature
"It is true that if poetry were to disappear, the world would not be moved, but after years of studying, researching and teaching literature, I see its importance in how it makes us more ethical people and gives us consolation." You live and suffer in the first person, multiplicity of stories, nothing sentimental component, "says Belmonte.
In addition, for the academic adds to the knowledge, because "nothing starts from nothing and all the experiences have already been described thousands of years ago by Homer".
The heterogeneous group of CYCLA is made up of lines that range from literature, to didactics and fine arts.
The doctor in Hispanic philology feels proud of this amalgam, which allows to complete the complex universe of words: "Today, for example, literature can not be without cinematographic, pictorial or photographic techniques".
In particular, the essence of his line is to find the work that breaks with the previous and revolutionizes the narrative.
In this sense, the teacher staged a return to the old way of telling Aristotelian stories, where the structure predominates with a beginning, middle and end.
"This is because the form is what is not molded yet, if there are a thousand children, even if everyone works with mud, none would make a glass equal."
Likewise, a claim to consider the reader while the text is constructed prevails.
In contrast, explains the teacher, the research does not go beyond the academic field, "and when they do it is usually the anecdotal, how to know if it is a suicide, was drunk or was an accident."
Discoveries like the one of 'Nine unpublished letters of Ramón J. Sender: images of the impossible return', that remain in concentric circles, many times without reaching the outside.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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