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An existential novel set in this conflict’s aftermath centers on the orphan Andrea moving to her grandmother’s run-down home and befriending Ena at university. Natalia struggles in relationships with Quimet and Antoni in The Time of the Doves, a novel set in this conflict. A memoir of this conflict describes how its author survived a sniper wound to the neck and fought (15[1])alongside Georges Kopp. Pascal Duarte’s life ends during this conflict in a novel by Camilo José (15[1])Cela. An author fought in the (10[1])(*) P·O·U·M in this conflict, (10[1])which is the setting of a novel in which the protagonist gets his palms read by Pilar, Pablo’s wife. The Generation of‘36 primarily wrote during this conflict. Robert Jordan blows up a bridge in, for 10 points, what war, the setting of Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia? ■END■

ANSWER: Spanish Civil War (the first novel is Nada by Carmen Laforet)
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