Cain y Abel en su versión española. La novela-imágen de la Guerra civil vista desde la ultraderecha falangista. Ximénez de Sandoval y su Camisa azul

The paper herein is focused on the part of the Spanish narrative which is constituted as the image – immediate, warm, subjective – of a historical period marked by the 1936-1939 Civil War. In dealing with the gradual accumulation of the ideological tensions, the outbreak and the development of the conflict and with the recreation, by the means of a highly committed art, the atmosphere of a violent world and sharply divided between “the good” and “the bad”, as it appears, this kind of narrative aims to be simultaneously a testimony, a justification and a propagandistic incitement. Out of the wide range of novels belonging to this category – which appeared with the war, but did not disappear with it – existent between the two sides in the conflict – we study here only those that represent the ideology of the Right, especially of radical right Falange and, specifi cally, one that has become emblematic for this world which has lost sight of something and thinks to have found it under the sign of the blue shirt.