From Neo-Francoist Memory to Political Feeling in Narratives of Unearthing: Sanchez Drago's Muertes Paralelas (2006) and Andres Trapiello's Ayer no mas (2012)

This article analyzes the novels Muertes paralelas and Ayer no mas as representatives of two clearly defined perspectives within the Spanish twenty-first century narrative production on unearthing the past of Francoism. The symbolic construction of unearthing permits an investigation of the remnants of a neo-Francoist vision of the legacy of the civil war, while opening the view of a political feeling by which personal memory inserts itself most profoundly as a commitment to a more comprehensive and lasting closure of the past.