España en la revista literaria francesa "Cahiers du Sud" entre 1924-1936

Abstract

Spain in the French Literary Review Cahiers du Sud between 1924-1936
The French review Cahiers du Sud, based in the great southern port of Marseilles, in an editorial epic that began in 1924 under the review’s courageous editor, Jean Ballard, devoted a significant proportion of its pages to Spanish literature – and culture – in the 1920s-1930s. During this period, the abundance of European literatures, particularly from the North, left little space for that South that always had to fight harder than the other geographical areas for the attention of the public and the critics, or even for them to simply have access to its cultural and artistic productions. In this article, we study how the cosmopolitanism of a French and Mediterranean review functioned alongside the literary production of another Mediterranean country such as Spain, before the Civil War of 1936 spelt the end of numerous innovative artistic projects on the other side of the Pyrenees.