ÍNSULA IN THE SPANISH CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Abstract

The Spanish historian Carlos Álvarez-Ude reflects about the important role of Ínsula, the journal of which he is today the editor, in the Spanish contemporary letters, since its foundation in the difficult first years of Franco (1946), when Spain had barely emerged from the bloody Civil War and culture was viewed with suspicion, up to the present era. According to Álvarez-Ude, the founder, Enrique Canito, a Professor cleansed after the war because of his "rigid lay honesty", was animated by his teacher Pedro Salinas to undertake the adventure.