Memoria, violencia y utopia en Antzaren Bidea (2007) / El camino de la oca (2008) de Jokin Muñoz, una novela vasca sobre la Guerra Civil

Abstract

Jokin Muñoz’s novel, Antzararen Bidea (2007) / El camino de la oca (2008), narrates memories of the Spanish Civil War in Navarre. The analysis combines narratology with Memory Studies. It concludes that this is a unique novel in the Basque literary system, thanks to the use of the space – Navarre’s Rivera (river-land area) –, repression exercised on civilian population and ideological depiction of characters. The main character is a Carlist (royalist-traditionalist) that feels nostalgia for the bygone days of the Spanish Republic when different ideologies could coexist in peace.

Keywords

• Basque literature. Ideologies. Memoir of the Spanish Civil War. Novel. Repression