The initiative, developed by the Memory Novels Lab research group from the Department of Spanish Philology, has compiled nearly 2,500 works published mainly between 1990 and 2025. This period is crucial for the rise of memorialistic narrative in Spain.

Of this collection, approximately 500 novels already have a complete analysis based on a system of literary metadata. This system allows for the study of aspects such as chronology, narrative spaces, themes, and relationships between texts.

The project materializes in a digital cartography that organizes and analyzes literary production linked to the memory of the conflict and the dictatorship. This facilitates new forms of research in the field of digital humanities. Additionally, over a hundred works include academic video-reviews, a tool designed for knowledge transfer in the university environment.

The laboratory is directed by researchers José Martínez Rubio and Luz C. Souto, and brings together specialists from various universities with an interdisciplinary approach combining literary studies, historical memory, and digital analysis. Although the core of the corpus consists of works published in Spain, the database also includes novels from other countries that address the memory of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism from international perspectives.

The project collects texts in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque, as well as in languages such as English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. This allows for the analysis of the international projection of these narratives and their reception in different cultural contexts.

The team is already working on expanding the database with works published between 1936 and 1989, with the aim of analyzing the evolution of literature on the Spanish Civil War and Francoism throughout the contemporary period. With this expansion, the project aims to consolidate itself as a reference tool for the study of cultural memory in literature.