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Rachel Ann Linville
The enormous popularity of Javier Cercas's novel Soldiers of Salamis (2001), based in part on the author's real investigations about a mysterious episode from the Spanish Civil War, led David Trueba to direct a cinematographic adaptation of the work in 2003. This study explores the aspects of the film and novel that create a more positive and united vision of Spain's past. Neither version portrays the fascist repression during or after the war and references to the uprising or the war use ambiguous terms that do not suggest violence. Soldiers of Salamis also idealizes collective memory by bridging the divide between republicans and fascists. Several aspects of the work, including the idea that victimhood due to the war was universal, portray the country as being more unified than it really was
