Abstract

The present article reflects on and emphasises the importance of the still-unrecognised work by Catalan writers who bore witness to the Exile of 1939 and the preceding historical period of the Second Spanish Republicsecond and the Civil WarSpanish. The article explores how these exiled writers and their literary corpora played a fundamental role in recovering Catalan historical collective Memorycollective memory and IdentityCollective. In particular it focuses on two writers, Guansé, Domènec Riera Llorca, Vicenç, in the light of recent studies of literary history that have begun this process of re-evaluating the literature of exile, and relates their work to the Lowenthal, David, Traverso, Enzo regarding the past and memory.