The controversy regarding Graham Greene in Spain

Mónica Olivares Leyva's essay contains a detailed examination of the censors' reports on the Spanish translations of Graham Greene's early novels, those written before "Brighton Rock" (1938) and submitted to the Spanish censorship board in the 1940s. Olivares shows how six o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Olivares Leyva, Mónica|||0000-0003-0190-408X
Tipo de recurso: libro
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/60602
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60602
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Filología
Philology
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Sumario:Mónica Olivares Leyva's essay contains a detailed examination of the censors' reports on the Spanish translations of Graham Greene's early novels, those written before "Brighton Rock" (1938) and submitted to the Spanish censorship board in the 1940s. Olivares shows how six out of the seven novels that entered the censors' office at that time were banned. It is interesting to note the contradiction evident in the censoring of novels by an author so clearly associated with Catholicism. The regime's focus on sexual morality is revealed in this analysis, as the Spanish censors report on the "moral depravation", "pornographic" and "morbid" passages that they find in some of these stories, particularly in "Stamboul Train" (1932) and "It's a Battlefield" (1934).