¿Hacia una renovación de la Historia? Post-apocalipsis, ideología y lengua en Mecanoscrito del segundo origen de Manuel de Pedrolo

• Authors: Alfons Gregori

Title variants

EN

Towards a History renewal? Post-apocalypse, ideology and language in Manuel de Pedrolo’s Typescript of the second origin

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

PL

The aim of the present paper is to determine several fissures and inconsistencies leading to unsolvable ambiguities of meaning in Manuel de Pedrolo’s novel Typescript of the second origin by means of a critical analysing of its linguistic and ideological issues, specially its religious groundwork – which is both stylistic and related to ideological content. However, some elements weaken the narrative’s disrupting character, making almost inevitably the failure of this revolution, as it is evidenced in the epilogue. In short, Predolo’s novel may be interpreted as a strong claim against History.

EN

The aim of the present paper is to determine several fissures and inconsistencies leading to unsolvable ambiguities of meaning in Manuel de Pedrolo’s novel Typescript of the second origin by means of a critical analysing of its linguistic and ideological issues, specially its religious groundwork – which is both stylistic and related to ideological content. However, some elements weaken the narrative’s disrupting character, making almost inevitably the failure of this revolution, as it is evidenced in the epilogue. In short, Predolo’s novel may be interpreted as a strong claim against History.

Keywords

ES

Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction

IT

Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction; Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction

FR

Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction

PT

Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction; Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction; Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction

EN

Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction; Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction

PL

Contemporary Catalan literature; ideology in literature; literary language; post-apocalyptical fiction; dystopian fiction

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-29

Dates

published

2020-03-15

Contributors

author

Alfons Gregori

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2020.471.002