Spanish Post-Civil War Poetry / Generation of '36 Author: Luis Rosales (1910–1992) Date of Publication: 1949 (First complete edition)

La Casa Encendida (1949) by Luis Rosales is a foundational 20th-century Spanish "book-poem" that blends narrative and lyricism to explore memory and identity. Portable PDF versions and scholarly analyses of this rehumanized, five-part work are available through digital repositories like Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

But the war came. The house was taken, then abandoned, then half-destroyed. By the time Luis fled Granada, the roof had caved in, and the lamps were shattered. He carried only a leather notebook, its pages blank except for the title: La casa encendida .