A través de los ojos de Sam Gifford en El día que terminó el siglo: su visión de la II Guerra Mundial y la realizada por el cine bélico  estadounidense hasta la actualidad

Enric Mas Aixalà

doi:10.24310/tlc.6.2024.15803

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Enric Mas Aixalà Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-7775

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/tlc.6.2024.15803

Palabras clave:

Francis Irby Gwaltney, Norman Mailer, Between Heaven and Hell, Los desnudos y los muertos, Richard Fleischer, Raoul Walsh, II Guerra Mundial, Batalla de Luzón

Resumen

Desvelamos cómo la novela The Day the Century Ended de Francis Irby Gwaltney aporta una visión tan real de la II Guerra Mundial al alejarse del enaltecimiento del ejército y mostrar una psicología de militares y políticos difícil de digerir, especialmente hoy día, por su similitud con los actuales. A través de un análisis fílmico-literario, introducimos aquí que Gwaltney pudo haberse inspirado en el también escritor Norman Mailer al crear al personaje principal de su novela, Sam Gifford, y no únicamente al concebir al soldado Bernard L. Meleski como se creía hasta ahora. Además, descubrimos de qué manera su adaptación cinematográfica logró superar la férrea censura estadounidense con un lenguaje que ni los críticos ni el ejército supieron entender.

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