Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons^™

Federico Vidal, El Espíritu Ecuánime En Los Vencidos De Antonio Ferres, Louis Bourne

The Coastal Review

Antonio Ferres (Madrid, 1924), Spanish novelist who began publishing in the 1950s in the period of what has been called “social realism,” wrote Los vencidos in 1960 during a shorter period of about four years referred to as “critical realism,” but the novel was forbidden by the censor during the Franco dictatorship, came out in Italian in 1962 and in Spanish in France in 1965. Unjustly deprived of a general Spanish public until 2005, it tells the story of Asunción who searches for her husband only to find he was put to death by Spanish nationalists, Federico Vidal, an imprisoned …