A Generation without Memory? The Spanish Civil War as seen by the Catalan Generation of the 1970s

The 1970s generation of Catalan writers have generally been characterized by critics as an iconoclastic generation whose breaking free from the literary model of realism and psychologism became their main claim for change. This willingness to break free included a revision of the themes that preoccupied them, which, in their will to join the modernity of the pop movement turned them away from the theme of the Civil War. However, in some of those authors an interest in the theme Civil War can be observed, which does away with their alleged tendency towards 'forgetfulness'. This article studies the presence of the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War in Montserrat Roig and Josep Piera following the principles of Trauma and Postmemory Theory. Montserrat Roig shows herself to be the author most engaged with the victims of Fascist repression, whereas in Josep Piera's oeuvre remembrance of the past acquires a more personal and autobiographical nature.