The Interplay Between Fiction and Testimony: The Representation of Republican Exile in Britain in Esteban Salazar Chapela’s Perico en Londres

• Blanca Gómez García ^[1]
  1. [1] University College London

     University College London

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 99, Nº 3, 2022, págs. 449-476
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2022.2105593
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• Resumen

  • Esteban Salazar Chapela, an author exiled in Britain after the Spanish Civil War, wrote Perico en Londres as testimony for Republican exile in Britain. This article analyses Perico en Londres as an early example of autofiction, arguing that Salazar drew upon autobiography and fiction to create a space of co-existence that embraces the contradictions and ambiguity of exile. Blurring the line between fiction and autobiography allowed Salazar to express his feelings towards exile without complete exposure and promote the testimonial value of the narrative by giving a detailed yet fictionalized account of the intrahistoria of Republican exile in Britain.