The Poetic Academy Musa Musae

Abstract

Musa Musae poetic academy, probably the first great cultural gathering formed after the Spanish civil war, since it opened its doors on January 17, 1940, ten months and a half after the war officially ended (April 1, 1939), was a shy and unsuccessful attempt for laying the groundworks of a future national reconciliation on utopian and romantic literary and artistic bases. Reviled by his critics, this article specifies and contextualizes its appearance, gathers different testimonies of assistants and participants, and defines his principal characteristics as the initiatory literary pioneer of the sectors more progress and conciliators of the Franco´s regime, which was followed by the magazine Escorial, the gatherings at the Café Gijón and the cultural supplement of the newspaper Arriba in a destroyed Spain and with its warlike wounds still opened, since his exile perceived all these movements with enough skepticism.