THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE EYES OF FOREIGN AUTHORS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR / SAVAŞA KATILAN YABANCI YAZARLARIN GÖZÜNDEN İSPANYOL İÇ SAVAŞI

Abstract

The Spanish Civil War divided the Spanish nation into two parts; as supporters of the Republican Army and the Rebellion Army between 1936 and 1939. The Republican Army was supported by the USSR, and the Rebellion Army was supported by Hitler’s Germany, although the neutrality of the international public was in place at the beginning of the war. Thus, the Spanish Civil War, in a sense, turned into a competitive field of international powers. While Germany and the USSR were involved in the war, many citizens of the other countries are motivated by the indifference of their own countries to the Civil War. Brigadas Internacionales (International Brigades), a group of international volunteers whose number was around 40.000, came to fight in the ranks of the Republican Army. There were many famous poets, writers and activists in this volunteer brigade. Despite the fact that those foreign authors participating in the Civil War did not have great success in arts, their spiritual support and testimonial works have great importance. It is not possible to examine all the foreign authors that participated in the Civil War. The aim of our study is to examine the authors that participated in the Spanish Civil War and their Turkish translations about the Civil War, either during or after the war. Thus, it is aimed to contribute to the Turkish literature describing the Spanish Civil War

Keywords

• Spanish Civil War
• international brigades
• civil war and literature
• civil war and writers