Spaniards in the Gulag: Analysis of the Dramatic Text El mensaje, by Jaime Salom

Abstract

El mensaje is a dramatic text by Jaime Salom premiered in 1955 in the Arriaga Theater, in Bilbao. It is about the captivity of the Spaniards in the Gulag of the Soviet Union, a forgotten theme nowadays. The aim of our paper is to observe the experience of the Spaniards in the Gulag in El mensaje. For it, we analyze the dramatic text and then we study the references that Salom does about the Gulag to contextualize with the rest of the Spanish literary and historical books of the Gulag