Centenary Paper: José María Castellet frente a la censura franquista: el caso de Nueve novísimos poetas españoles.

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      This work analyses the struggles with Franco's censorship that José María Castellet had to face when he embarked on three anthology projects that were decisive in the history of post-war Spanish poetry. The particular severity with which Nueve novísimos poetas españoles (1970) was received invites us to focus on this anthology, which, with qualities that should have made it more resistant, fell foul of censorship in a way that its anthological predecessors did not. On the one hand, reflection on this paradox leads us to venture hypotheses about the dynamics of the repressive body's actions. On the other hand, a thorough analysis of the censorship dossier of Nueve novísimos allows us to draw some interesting conclusions. It is true, for example, that the elliptical diction introduced by the novísimo poets protected the anthology from a much wider purge. However, the censorship actually practised, which polished the more obvious aspects of its insurgent vocation, was enough to alter the historical reception and, by extension, the historiographical significance of a book that was stubbornly denied its subversive substance. The discovery of an unpublished composition by José María Álvarez is certainly not the least of the surprises of the archival side of this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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      Este trabajo analiza los forcejeos con la censura franquista a que debió hacer frente José María Castellet a la hora de encarar tres proyectos antológicos decisivos para la historia de la poesía española de posguerra. Los especiales rigores con que fue saludada Nueve novísimos poetas españoles (1970) nos invitan a poner el foco en esta antología, que, contando con cualidades que debieran hacerla más resistente, se estrelló contra la censura como no lo hicieron sus precedentes antológicos. Por un lado, la reflexión sobre esta paradoja nos conduce a aventurar hipótesis sobre las dinámicas de actuación de la instancia represora. Por otro lado, el minucioso análisis del expediente de censura de Nueve novísimos nos permite obtener conclusiones interesantes. Así, es cierto que la dicción elíptica que ponían en curso los poetas novísimos blindó a la antología de un expurgo mucho más amplio. Sin embargo, la censura efectivamente practicada, que pulió los costados más obvios de su vocación insurgente, bastó para torcer la recepción histórica y, de camino, la significación historiográfica de un libro al que se negó obstinadamente su sustancia subversiva. El hallazgo de una composición inédita de José María Álvarez no es seguramente la menor de las sorpresas que depara la vertiente archivística de esta investigación. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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