Ramón J. Sender Explained
| Ramón J. Sender |
| Birth Date: | 1901 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Chalamera, Spain |
| Death Place: | San Diego, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Professor |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Citizenship: | American |
| Movement: | Post-Spanish Civil War literature |
Ramón José Sender Garcés (3 February 1901 – 16 January 1982) was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist. Several of his works were translated into English by the distinguished zoologist, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, including Seven Red Sundays (Siete domingos rojos), Mr Witt Among the Rebels (Mr Witt en el cantón) and The War in Spain (Contraataque).[1] He published articles in the Valencia-based Orto magazine between 1932 and 1934.[2] During the Spanish Civil War Sender was among the contributors of El Mono Azul, a Republican literary magazine.[3]
Sender's son is the composer and writer Ramón Sender. One of his several grandchildren is Sol Sender, a designer best known for his work on the Obama campaign logo.[4]
Publications
In Spanish
- Imán (1930)
- Siete domingos rojos (1932)
- Mr. Witt en el cantón (1935)
- Contraataque (1937)
- El lugar de un hombre (1939)
- Mexicayotl (1940)
- Crónica del alba (1942)
- La esfera (1947)
- El rey y la reina (1949) (Originally published in 1948 in English)[5]
- El verdugo afable (1952)
- Mosén Millán (1953) (republished later in 1960 renamed as Requiem por un campesino español)
- Bizancio (1956)
- La tesis de Nancy (1962)
- El bandido adolescente (1965)
- La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1968)
In English translation
- Mr. Witt Among the Rebels (1937); original Spanish: Mr. Witt en el cantón
- Seven Red Sundays (1938); original Spanish: Siete domingos rojos
- The War in Spain: A Personal Narrative (1937); original Spanish: Contraataque
- Chronicle of Dawn (1945); original Spanish: Crónica del alba
- The King and the Queen (1948)
- Requiem for a Spanish Peasant (1960); original Spanish: Requiem por un campesino español
- The Affable Hangman (1964); original Spanish: El verdugo afable
Further reading
- Web site: Ramón J. Sender Garcés (1901–1982) . Centro Virtual Cervantes . Ara Torralba . Juan Carlos . . es . 6 August 2018.
- News: Conte . Rafael . Crítica: Un centenario interminable . El País . 22 December 2001 . es . 1134-6582 . Madrid .
- Book: Pérez . Janet . Aycock . Wendell M. . King . Charles L. . Ramón Sender's Civil War . The Spanish Civil War in Literature . 109–120 . 1990 . 978-0-89672-196-8 . . Lubbock, Texas . Studies in Comparative Literature .
- Book: Nonoyama . Michiko . El anarquismo en las obras de Ramón J. Sender. . 1979 . Playeor . Madrid . 163455230 .
- Book: Peñuelas . Marcelino C . Conversaciones con Ramón J. Sender . 1970 . Editorial Magisterio Español . Madrid . 474869 .
- Pini . Donatella . La degradación de Sender, un montaje . Alazet . 2 . 145–149 . 1990 . es . 0214-7602 . 11577/116692 .
- Book: Pini Moro . Donatella . Ramón J. Sender tra la guerra e l'esilio . 1994 . Italian . 978-88-7694-163-4 . Edizioni dell'Orso . Roma . 432036211 .
- Book: Rivas, Josefa . 1967 . El escritor y su senda: estudio crítico-literario sobre Ramón J. Sender . . 340 .
- Book: Sáenz, Paz. Narratives from the Silver Age. Hughes . Victoria . Richmond . Carolyn . Carolyn Richmond. Madrid. Iberia . 1988 . 84-87093-04-3.
- Web site: Sender Garcés, Ramón José . . 2009 . en .
- Trippett . Anthony M. . Nonoyama, Michiko, 'El anarquismo en las obras de R. J. Sender' (Book Review) . . 58 . 2 . 150 . April 1981 . 10.3828/bhs.58.2.150 . 1475-3839 .
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell. My House in Málaga. The Clapton Press. London. 978-1-9996543-5-1. 29 May 2019.
- Web site: Orto. ucm.es. 25 May 2020. es. 12 April 2024.
- Book: Silvina Schammah Gesser. Alexandra Cheveleva Dergacheva. Raanan Rein. Joan Maria Thomás. Spain 1936: Year Zero. 2018. https://books.google.com/books?id=M5vHugEACAAJ. Brighton. 194. Sussex Academic Press. 978-1845198923. An Engagé in Spain: Commitment and Its Downside in Rafael Alberti’s Philo-Sovietism.
- Book: Elliott Robert Barkan . Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration. ABC-CLIO. https://books.google.com/books?id=AP7QCteb0o0C&pg=PA1315. 2013. 978-1-59884-219-7. 1315. Carol L. Schmid. Spanish and Spanish Americans, 1940-Present. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford.
- Schneider, Marshall J., and Baruch College. “The Antifascist Impulse in Two Novels of Ramón J. Sender: Genre, Gender and Interpretation.” Letras Peninsulares. vol. 14, no. 1, primavera 2001, pp. 33-41.
