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Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona

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Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona book

Narrating Memory and Place

Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona

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Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona book

Narrating Memory and Place
ByColleen P. Culleton
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 22 July 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592589
Pages 194 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315592589
SubjectsHumanities
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Culleton, C. (2016). Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592589

Bringing together works by Salvador Espriu, Juan Goytisolo, Mercè Rodoreda, Esther Tusquets, and Juan Marsa that portray memory as a disorienting narrative enterprise, Colleen Culleton argues that the source of this disorientation is the material reality of life in Barcelona in the immediate post-Civil War years. Barcelona was the object of harsh persecution in the first years of the Franco regime that included the erasure of marks of Catalan identity and cultural history from the urban landscape and made Barcelona a moving target for memory. The literature and film she examines show characters struggling to produce narratives of the remembered past that immediately conflict with the dominant version of Spain's historical narrative formulated to legitimize the Civil War. Culleton suggests the trope of the laberinto, used as an image or device in all five of the works she considers and translated into English as both maze and labyrinth, opens up a space that enables readers to take vulnerability to outside interference into account as an inseparable part of remembrance. While the narratives all have maze-like qualities involving a high level of reader participation and choice, the exigencies of the labyrinth with its unicursal demands for patience, perseverance, and faith always prevail. Thus do the Francoist narrative and social structure in the end resurface and reassert themselves over the narrating character's perspective.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|38 pages

In the labyrinth: the uses of place in the construction of memory

chapter 2|45 pages

The Minotaur in the middle: encounters with death and oblivion in Salvador Espriu’s La pell de brau and Juan Goytisolo’s Señas de identidad

chapter 3|20 pages

The architect and the prisoner: the (im)possible articulation of memory in Mercè Rodoreda’s La plaça

Bydel Diamant

chapter 4|23 pages

Splitting the thread: games, rituals, and the reader’s expectations in Esther Tusquets’s El mismo mar de todos los veranos

chapter 5|19 pages

Echoes in the maze: Juan Marsé’s Si te dicen que caí

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