Ramón J. Sender’s Sublime Visions of Freedom in Relatos fronterizos (1970)

After having served as an officer in the Spanish Republican Army (1936–1939), Spanish novelist and essayist, Ramón J. Sender (1902–1982), fled to Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War. He moved to the United States in 1942 and published numerous articles and books, among them Relatos fronterizos/Border Stories (1970). The collection of short stories maintains his recurrent exilic autobiographical projections with new transnational concerns. Protagonists are on the move: they are traveling, migrating, crossing borders, staying in hotels or visiting someone. Sender observes the bourgeois characters with the frivolous disdain of a flaneur¹ but offers his