Covering nine major works of Catalan writer Terenci Moix, Reflexive
Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity: Autobiography and
Fiction in Terenci Moix’s Novels places Moix’s fictional prose
against the backdrop of his autobiographical novels, thus highlighting
the importance of the author’s daily life experiences and their
transmutation into the virtuality of fiction. This study, the first to
look at Moix’s works in both Catalan and Castilian, and in both
autobiography and fiction, contests the implicit critical perspective
that examines this period using the dichotomies of
modernity/postmodernity and autobiography/fiction. It proposes Spanish
modernity as a unique phenomenon that produces a distinctive
personality as a result of the tensions of the period. Arthur J.
Hughes’s examination of Moix’s modernity forces a new look at the
notion of Spanish postmodernity usually assumed to be a result of the
transition to democracy after the death of Franco, providing a new
perspective on the separation of autobiographic and fictional genres
that argues for the reflection of one in the other.
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Autobiography and Fiction in Terenci Moix's Novels
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ISBN
9781433157509
Publisert
2019
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Peter Lang
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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