L’oralitat com a origen de la narrativa de Jesús Moncada

• Authors: Garcia Fuster Artur

Title variants

EN

Orality as the origin of the narrative of Jesús Moncada

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

Jesús Moncada’s narrative presents an oral substrate in the form of rumours, gossip, grudges or disputes that take place in the little village of Mequinensa, where everyone knows each other. Following the theories of Eric Havelock, Paul Zumthor, and Walter J. Ong, which identify in orality the source of any literary expression, we analyse the evolution of Maquinensan loud secrets and hidden truths into stories and how the skilful writer is able to turn simple anecdotes into great narrative plots. In this paper, several examples from short stories and novels are analysed, and the differences in the role of orality in each genre are described and examined. Furthermore, the role of casual conversation as an oral start-point of Moncada’s stories is highlighted.

Keywords

ES

oralitat; ironia; memòria; Jesús Moncada; literatura catalana

EN

orality; irony; memory; Jesús Moncada; Catalan literature

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Estudios Hispánicos
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 27
• Pages: 117-128

Contributors

author

Garcia Fuster Artur

• Sveučilište u Zadru

Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2084-2546.27.11