Manuel Lueiro Rey against Franco’s Censorship: Manso’s Vicissitudes

Abstract

This article explores the life and literary production of Manuel Lueiro Rey, analyzing the editorial vicissitudes of his work beginning with his clash with the Francoist censorship organization. A repression we can document thanks to the files stored at the AGA and contemporaneous documents. In particular, we can re-enact the trajectory of the Manso novel, investigating the circumstances that led to the first edition (Oviedo, 1967) and examining the imposed cuts and the ideological reasons behind those cuts. For the first time, censorship reports are made public, shading light in particular on the figure and the historical work of the serviceman Gárate Córdoba, the first person in charge of the suppressions aiming to reduce the conflicting value of an anti-war work. Lastly, results of the collation between the typescript delivered by the publishing house to the censorship department, the princeps and the second edition (1968), published in its whole form in Buenos Aires, are presented.