El guatemalteco parisiense Enrique Gómez Carrillo

• Authors: Poláková Dora

Title variants

EN

Enrique Gómez Carrillo, the Parisian from Guatemala

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

Gómez Carrillo represents the period of the Hispanoamerican literature called modernism, that means the turn of the 20th century. He spent almost all his life out of Guatemala, especially in France and Spain, falling in love with the French capital, the symbol of everything new, shocking, and rare. He wrote a vast literary work, especially journalistic articles and chronicles (mainly from his travels to Europe and exotic countries), and also short novels Tres novelas inmorales / Three immoral novels, on which this article focuses. We consider them as an interesting portrait of the era called fin de siècle; under their provocative and indecent surface there are hidden the basic artistic questions of the moment: What is the value of art? Which role is the artist supposed to play in the modern world? And what distance is there between real love andmere lust?

Keywords

ES

Gómez Carrillo; París; modernismo; novela; inmoral; femme fatale

EN

Gómez Carrillo; Paris; modernism; novel; immoral; femme fatale

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: Special Issue: El mundo de la literatura
• Pages: 130-139

Contributors

author

Poláková Dora

• Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta