Spanish Civil War and Social Conscience: En mi hambre mando yo

Despite having played a significant role in cultural, intellectual, political and social Spanish life at the beginning of the twentieth century, the literary work of Isabel Oyarzabal has re-mained relegated for decades. Fortunately, in the latest years the reissue of some or her books and the research about her life and production from different fields have contributed to recover her legacy. This paper carries the purpose of analyse how she related civil war, from a socially engaged perspective, in her novel En mi hambre mando yo, which was published in 1959. Our intention is to contribute some remarks in order to underline the importance of this work, not only for its literary quality, but also for its historical and ethic value, having been created for one of the women that participated actively in the intellectual development of the Spanish II Republic. One woman, furthermore, who was witness to the most bloody and pain-ful conflict that took place in her country in the past century and was forced to exile in Mexico with her family when the rebel army won, but, who, even so, does not offer a partisan vision of the conflict, rather a humanistic one.