García Serrano, Rafael

b. 1917, Pamplona

   Writer

   Journalist, novelist and essayist, García unfailingly propagandizes for the Falangists (see also Falange), exalting their heroics in Eugenio o la proclamación de la primavera (Eugene, or Proclaiming Springtime) (1938), and La fiel infantería (The Loyal Infantry) (1943) which crudely depicts life in the trenches. This resounding popular success received national recognition, but Plaza del Castillo (Castle Square) is literarily superior. Los ojos perdidos (Lost Eyes) (1958) and La paz dura quince días (Peace Lasts Two Weeks) (1960) truculently promote fascist ideology.

   Further reading

   - Nora, EG. de (1967) La novela española contemporánea, vol. 3, Madrid: Gredos, pp. 89–94(good literary history which places García Serrano and his works in context).

   - Pérez, J. (1989, 1992) "Fascist Models and Literary Subversion: Two Fictional Modes in Postwar Spain", South Central Review 6, 2: 73–87; repr. in Fascism/literature/Aesthetics, ed. R.J.Golsan, University Press of New England, 128–42 (compares fiction of García Serrano with subversive treatment by Torrente Ballester).

   JANET PÉREZ