Spanish Pacifist and Soviet Civil War Prose

This article compares literary responses to war in Spanish depictions of the North African campaigns and Russian Civil War prose, examining thematic, structural, and aesthetic qualities, as well as ideological divergences in their reception of war. In particular, Jose Diaz Fernandez's El blocao and Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry present a compelling case of transculturation, despite differing views on war. While Soviet writers like Babel regarded war as a sacred and necessary mission of the Revolution, the writers of Nuevo Romanticismo viewed war negatively, even in the pursuit of revolutionary ideals.