By Harriet Turner, Adelaida López de Martínez
Providing the improvement of the fashionable Spanish novel from 1600 to the current, this spouse attracts at the mixed legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel. Essays specialize in invention and scan and think about the position performed via historic occasions and cultural contexts within the Spanish novel's evolution. together with a chronology and consultant to additional analyzing, the survey unearths the cutting edge concepts characterizing the Spanish novel in addition to the debates surrounding it.
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Delibes, El hereje. Mar´ıa Mayoral, La sombra del angel. Luc´ıa Extebarria, Del todo lo visible y lo invisible. Eduardo ˜ Mendoza, La aventura del tocador de senoras. Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York. The peseta is replaced by the euro. xxxv 1 ´ P E Z D E M A RT I´ N E Z A N D H A R R I E T T U R N E R ADELAIDA LO On the novel: mirror and text Comparative in scope, this volume in the Cambridge Companion series presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from the seventeenth century to the present.
First he focuses on their biographical, social, and historical contexts, and then proceeds to discuss their formal innovations and obsession with the themes of war. Sobejano analyzes the themes of disillusion, loss, alienation, uncertainty, and evasion in novels by Cela, Delibes, Sender, ´ ´ Santos, and Mart´ın Santos, and shows how Sanchez Ferlosio, Fernandez the novel becomes a montage of narrative structures and modes of poetic diction that contest, by implication, with the coercive, “official” optimism of Francoist Spain.
The questions of parody, metafiction, and the polyphonic texture of narrative mark a thematic and artistic coherence, which, through the essays of this volume, becomes clearly discernible in the evolution of the modern Spanish novel. Now a word about the process of editing: Each contributor was free to select the works, develop lines of argument, and propose an interpretation, directing the essay towards the general reader, undergraduate students, and specialists in Hispanic Studies. Thus each chapter refers to the historical moment, cultural context, and to the literary tradition in which particular novels arise, engaging theoretical concepts to illuminate text and context.