Title: Siglo XX
Description: Examines the period of the Second Republic in 1936 and the Spanish army's mutiny that marked the beginning of a bitter civil war that lasted three years and cost one million Spanish lives. Dramatic readings are from those poets and prose writers who captured the period in their works: Rafael Alberti's "Romancero general de la guerra, " Antonio Machado's "Muerte de un nino Herido", Jose? Maria Peman's "De ellos es el mundo and Poema de la bestia y el angel", and Miguel Hernandez' "Viento del pueblo."
Subjects: Spanish literature, Politics and literature, History, Literature and the war
Places: Spain
Time periods: 20th century, Civil War, 1936-1939