Abstract

This chapter analyses a series of Valencian writers’ autobiographical texts in which we can trace their Engagement and critical position from the end of the Spanish Civil WarSpanish until Franco’s death and the beginning of Democracy. The main purpose of this study is to highlight the survival, reflection and reconstruction of memory and identity shown through the so-called literature of the Literatureliterature of the self and, secondly, to situate this phenomenon within the context of Catalan LiteratureCatalan in general. Some of the more representative voices in this research Gómez Nadal, Emili, Castelló, Gonçal, Fuster, Joan, Sánchez Cutillas, Carmelina Mira, Joan Francesc, among others.