Juan Eduardo Zúñiga es un caso único entre los escritores de la Guerra Civil. Aunque padece la guerra en su juventud, espera nada menos que hasta 1980 para publicar su primer libro de relatos sobre la guerra, Largo noviembre de Madrid. El segundo, Capital de la Gloria aparece en 2003. Mi trabajo se centra en examinar en esta obra la representación la guerra, los rasgos unificadores del texto, cuyo origen está en una memoria que no se expresa a través del relato autobiográfico sino por medio de la ficción.
Juan Eduardo Zúñiga is a singular case among the writers of the Spanish Civil War. He suffered the war in his youth, but it was not until 1980 that he published his first volume of short stories about that war: Largo noviembre de Madrid. His second book, Capital de la Gloria, appeared in 2003. This essay attempts to examine the representation of war in this latter work and the unifying features of a text that, far from being grounded in any sort of autobiographical form, are rooted in a memory that chooses fiction as a form of expression. Key words: Spanish Literature; 20th-21st Centuries; Spanish Civil War; Memory; Juan Eduardo Zúñiga