In 1970  was published the poetic anthology Nueve novisimos poetas españoles (Nine Newest Spanish Poets), giving the name to this literary movement that is made up of authors who for the most part did not experience the Spanish Civil War. These authors are more interested in writing for a consumer society,  themselves very influenced by elements of the more opulent society of consumerism,  such as comics, movies, and different types of modern music, particularly jazz, and rock. This is definitely a movement of renewal of the literary technique, with a detachment from the previous social realism and an approach to contemporary European and American literary trends. 

In prose, the change is announced by Martín Santos's novel, Tiempo de silencio, where the author makes compatible the still social denunciation with a technical renewal of style and experimentation. For these authors the subject is not as important as the style, placing themselves in a refreshing and avant-garde line. Some will experiment with surrealism, others with an aesthetic refinement that came to be called Venetian, and finally, others are attracted to a decadent and a neo-modernist aesthetic.

Post Civil War Generation

Gerardo Diego publishes  a book of poems,Alondra de verdad.

Camilo José Cela writes La familia de Pascual Duarte, a family story that reflects the existential pessimism that postwar Spain was experiencing.

Pio Baroja writes a recollection of his memories entitled Desde la última vuelta del camino.

Luis Rosales writes La casa encendida, a book of poems in which he   describes different vital stages under the philosophical background of the irreversibility of time and the existential pain of a life split into unrelated pieces.

Publication of Candide, by Voltaire. Candide is living a sheltered but indoctirinated life.

Albert Camus writes Le Étranger, an existentialist novel that reflects on the absurdity of life.

Alberto Moravia writes The conformist,  a daring novel pleading against the mechanisms of the totalitarian state.

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