ABSTRACT
Women's fight for liberty was deliberately forgotten in Spain, and the names of women like Victoria Kent were wiped out of history. The Paris years are only an extension of the event which propelled her there: the Spanish Civil War. Freedom, and Kent's understanding of it, is bound up in Cuatro anos en Paris in justifying the moment of departure from Spain to begin her life in exile. The Spanish Civil War and the war against Nazi Germany are melded into one single struggle of the free world against the Fascist system which enslaves those oppressed by it. Kent accords a sad image of remembrance to those who were scattered or died after the war. Interwoven with the theme of captivity is that of exile. For Kent, the overriding image of exile is as a haemorrhage. The shifts in state of mind during her exile were no doubt fundamental in leading Kent to devise a fluctuating self.
