In Spanish
A través de un análisis de la representación del sujeto implicado (Rothberg, 2019) en cuatro novelas españolas sobre la guerra civil, este artículo intenta discutir la tendencia de cierta crítica literaria española de categorizar la típica novela de memoria de la guerra civil como una novela despolitizante (novela de la no-ideología), frente a otro tipo de novela que se considera política o contra-hegemónica. La forma de representar el sujeto implicado se considera un índice del modo ético-político (Cento Bull y Hansen, 2016) con que la novela representa el pasado violento, y la distinción entre los tres modos fundamentales, el antagonista, el cosmopolita y el agonista, se presenta como un marco teórico para la categorización de la novela de memoria.
In English
Through the analysis of the representation of the implicated subject (Rothberg, 2019) in four Spanish novels about the civil war, this article will discuss the tendency present in a certain part of Spanish literary critique to categorize the typical novel on the civil war as a depoliticizing novel (no-ideology novel) up against another type of novel that is considered political and counter hegemonic. The way in which the implicated subject is represented will be considered an index of the ethico-political mode (Cento Bull and Hansen, 2016) through which the novel rememorates the violent past, and the distinction between the three fundamental modes, the antagonistic, the cosmopolitan, and the agonistic, will be presented as a theoretical frame for the categorization of the memory novel.