Memoria histórica y efecto fantástico en la narrativa breve de Jesús Moncada

• Authors: Alfons Gregori

Title variants

EN

Historical memory and fantastic effect in Jesús Moncada’s short stories

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

ES

The main aim of this article is to analyse the complexity of the subject of memory in the work of Jesus Moncada, as an author from Aragon writing in Catalan and introducing the Spanish Civil War issue in fantastic fiction, namely in Històries de la mà esquerra [Stories of the Left Hand] (1981). Furthermore, the short story that closes the book, “D’uns vells papers de música” [Old Sheet Music], is discussed to illustrate that matter in the context of the conflict between the real and the fantastic, on the one hand, and between history and memory, on the other hand. Thus, in the mentioned narrative fiction collective memory stands as a specter whose condition is noticed by its anachronistic return under grotesque forms, resulting from the horror facing death or the unreal, and from the irony interwoven by the narrator. In doing so Moncada problematizes any attempt to reconstruct historical memory based on literature.

EN

The main aim of this article is to analyse the complexity of the subject of memory in the work of Jesus Moncada, as an author from Aragon writing in Catalan and introducing the Spanish Civil War issue in fantastic fiction, namely in Històries de la mà esquerra [Stories of the Left Hand] (1981). Furthermore, the short story that closes the book, “D’uns vells papers de música” [Old Sheet Music], is discussed to illustrate that matter in the context of the conflict between the real and the fantastic, on the one hand, and between history and memory, on the other hand. Thus, in the mentioned narrative fiction collective memory stands as a specter whose condition is noticed by its anachronistic return under grotesque forms, resulting from the horror facing death or the unreal, and from the irony interwoven by the narrator. In doing so Moncada problematizes any attempt to reconstruct historical memory based on literature.

Keywords

ES

Contemporary Catalan literature; fantastic short stories; Jesús Moncada; historical memory; collective memory; Contemporary Catalan literature; fantastic short stories; Jesús Moncada; historical memory; collective memory

EN

Contemporary Catalan literature; fantastic short stories; Jesús Moncada; historical memory; collective memory

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37-50

Dates

published

2017-03-15

Contributors

author

Alfons Gregori

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej Pracownia Katalonistyki

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2017.441.003