"Por mí y por los demás”. Resistencia, comunidades y comunismo en "Episodios de una guerra interminable" de Almudena Grandes.

Unlike the tradition in historical narration, the series Episodios de una guerra interminable by Almudena Grandes presents a narrative model far away from the dominant one, in which “everything moves around the sequence 'event, discourse, supremacy of politics' putting an enphasis on the making a decision of powerful individuals” (Ricœur 2010: 317). In this novel version of the post-war period, Grandes avoids to underline the role of such individuals, because it is a group -in particular, the network of anti-Franco members of the resistance- and their constant activity who made possible the historical change in the long term. The political activity of each community in a different geographical context in every novel -Toulouse, Jaén, Madrid and Buenos Aires- is interconnected so that the conjuction of all of them outlines the coordination of a huge collective political subject, traditionally underrepresented in the Spanish public sphere. In this historical fiction the communist resistan...