“Vidas de Papel”. Modelos y prácticas de la escritura epistolar en la España contemporánea

Abstract

One of de dichotomies in the literacy world is that exists between theory and practice, between the interpretation of the rule that each person realizes ant its transgression according to the thing that he/she wants to communicates and the circumstances that the historic time impose her/him when he/she writes. This work is centered in the exploration of the relations between the epistolary manuals in contemporary Spain, those books that diffuse the rules and models od epistolary practice, the letter of common persons in relation with tour moments/spaces like emigration, war, prison and school. Letters and books, theory and practice, fiction and reality, change into the representation of a time and a society: the Spain of final of XIXth century and first middle of XXth century.