Adapting formulas from the cinematographic techniques of the United States, the literature of the Spanish post-civil war obtains objectivism that keeps its authors safe from the prevailing caesura of the moment. Behaviorism (John Watson 1878-195810) reduces the study of the individual to the acts that he/she performs in the outside world. Following these parameters, the post-war omniscient narrator only transcribes the actions of the characters in the novel. 

Nowadays, the reader is accustomed to this type of narrative, but at the time writers were criticized for the fact that this literary style structures a human life made up of unconnected moments, lacking a unit of motivation that gives meaning to the narrative. This kind of objectivism was however intentional in post-war authors, whose dispassionate and impassive narration, without comment on reality, made their work less vulnerable to censorship.

Cela, Delibes, Fernández Santos and Matute are some of the most relevant writers of this period. Their works narrate a raw, cold, gray, and soulless reality, which nevertheless moves the reader because that identifies with it. These literary works denounce the social injustice from a dialectical conception of history, very close to Marxist positions. In short, they sought to make a kind of  'megaphone-novel' of the injustices that could not be denounced through normal channels, reaching the consciences of the largest possible number of readers.

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