Abstract

MARCILLAS PIQUER, Isabel. Three prisoners: memory and literature. CELEHIS [online]. 2016, n.32, pp.58-68. ISSN 2313-9463.

The Catalan writer Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), during the last years of her life in the exile, participated at the end of World War II in a humanitarian mission in Etobon, in Haute-Saône, south-eastern of France. In Etobon he lived firsthand the tragedy of the women of the village; most of the men had been killed and women were forced to live with the murderers of their sons, husbands and brothers, now converted into prisoners. This experience had a strong impact to the author, not left her over the years and led her to write two novels that explain personal memory of the facts: Between two silences (1958) and Three prisoners (1957). The article focuses on the last one novel and explores the parallels between real history and fiction, through characters traumatized by the experience of war.

Keywords : Memory; Catalonian literature - World War II - Traumatic impression - Aurora Bertrana.

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