El Barranco de Nivaria Tejerala Guerra Civil española a través de los ojos de una niña

Abstract

Nivaria Tejera (Cienfuegos, 1929-Paris, 2016) was born in Cuba in 1929 but later she migrated to La Laguna, a city on the island of Tenerife, where Franco’s war and repression would erupt. The imprisonment of her father in the prison of Fyffes will be a turning point in her writing style and it will be the leitmotiv of her poetic novel El Barranco (1959). Likewise, it can be find in her literary production the rebellion of a creator who did not want to be beaten by the Franco’s regime and the Cuban dictatorship, eventhough she had to exile in Paris, where she would remain until her death in 2016. Nivaria cultivated poetry and narrative, always with the textual hybridity so characteristic of poetic vanguards. Nivaria’s literary creation includes several poems: Luces y Piedras (1949), Luz de lágrima (1951), La gruta (1952), Innumerables Voces (1964), La barrera fluídica o París escarabajo (1976), Rueda del exiliado (1983) y Martelar (1983).Her proseis composed of four narrative texts: El Barranco (1959), Sonámbulo del sol (1971), Huir de la espiral (1987) y Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución (1997. The objective of this article focuses on the analysis of her first poetic novel: El Barranco (1959) and the world view that she brings through the eyes of a girl.