The Return of Rafael Alberti

By: Juliet Jacques

The leftist poet Rafael Alberti was forced into exile by Franco, but his determination to return symbolised the hopes of the Spanish Republic.

Rafael Alberti reading his work Fustigada luz. (Photo by Carlos de Andres/Cover/Getty Images)

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The Spanish Civil War retains a prominent place in the imaginary of left-wing historians, intellectuals, and artists — even eighty years after General Franco’s victory over the Republican army. For many in the Anglosphere, film-maker Luis Buñuel remains the most famous exile from Franco’s Spain (Pablo Picasso had left the country before his infamous Guernica was […]

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The Spanish Civil War retains a prominent place in the imaginary of left-wing historians, intellectuals, and artists — even eighty years after General Franco’s victory over the Republican army. For many in the Anglosphere, film-maker Luis Buñuel remains the most famous exile from Franco’s Spain (Pablo Picasso had left the country before his infamous Guernica was […]

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The Spanish Civil War retains a prominent place in the imaginary of left-wing historians, intellectuals, and artists — even eighty years after General Franco’s victory over the Republican army. For many in the Anglosphere, film-maker Luis Buñuel remains the most famous exile from Franco’s Spain (Pablo Picasso had left the country before his infamous Guernica was […]

The Spanish Civil War retains a prominent place in the imaginary of left-wing historians, intellectuals, and artists — even eighty years after General Franco’s victory over the Republican army. For many in the Anglosphere, film-maker Luis Buñuel remains the most famous exile from Franco’s Spain (Pablo Picasso had left the country before his infamous Guernica was […]

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