La novela contemporánea como instrumento de duelo. Los girasoles ciegos de Alberto Méndez

The contemporary novel about the Spanish Civil War may serve as an instrument for the carrying-out of the mourning process which could not be completed due to the war and its consequences, through the (re)construction in fiction of lost stories. In the present article, we shall analyze two short stories from Méndez´s novel in its function as an instrument of mourning.