La presencia del padre en una autobiografía hispanomexicana: Cuando acabe la guerra de Enrique de Rivas

Abstract

The writers of the second generation of exile produced important autobiographical and autofictional books. The study of these works reveals an interesting interpretation of the history of the Spanish Civil War and exile, the different appreciations surrounding the same events and the personal and generational nuances. In the 1990s, Enrique de Rivas published Cuando acabe la guerra, a book in which he recounts the way he experienced this period during his childhood and adolescence. The hypothesis of this work is that the author generates a text that helps him become the owner of his own story. In particular, it is important to review the way in which he turns his father, Cipriano de Rivas Cherif, into a literary character. To achieve all of the above, the writer uses estrangement as an essential resource.