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1 - Dialogics through Translations and Travelogues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2013

Lynn C. Purkey
Lynn C. Purkey
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Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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¡Hombres de corazón que buscàis la Verdad! Apartad vuestra mirada de Occidente, donde las codicias del capitalismo han abierto, en una guerra horrorosa, ocho millones de tumbas y herido y mutilado en la flor de su edad à doce millones de hombres. […] Si queréis hallar la Verdad, dirigid la mirada hacia Oriente. […] En aquel horizonte veréis brillar la Verdad en la estrella roja, en la estrella simbólica que hoy ilumina à Rusia y pronto iluminarà à toda la Tierra.

(Acevedo, Impresiones 57–8)

[Men of heart who look for the truth turn your gaze away from the West, where the avarice of capitalism has dug eight million tombs, and wounded and mutilated twelve million men in a horrific war. […] If you want to find the truth, turn your gaze East. […] You will see the Truth shining on the horizon in the red star, in the symbolic star that illuminates Russia today and will soon illuminate the entire Earth.]

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the establishment of the new Soviet state had enormous ramifications for modes of cultural production throughout Europe, as universalist and arguably utopian ideals united a group of cultural workers across international borders. This was particularly true in the case of Spain, where a generation of young writers such as Rafael Alberti, Miguel Hernàndez and Ramón J. Sender turned their gaze east in search of models of politically- engaged literature.

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Spanish Reception of Russian Narratives, 1905-1939
Transcultural Dialogics
 , pp. 9 - 44
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2013

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