CRITICAL
The offspring of the old Humanism
By Angel L. PRIETO DE PAULA
As translations of the classics must be renewed periodically to shake the moths, the history of literature needs to be rewritten from time to time, but not consistently fall into the adan to start from scratch.
Ultimately, the cultural history built the past from a present that reflects values \u200b\u200band expendable troops, themselves historical, and recorded "a continuous process of change but also a tendency to solidification structures, "he recalls José-Carlos Mainer in a preliminary to the history of English literature who directs. This give and take sometimes leans to the consolidation of structures, such as when studying the sixteenth century, others to the dynamism of Instead, as when analyzing the current literature. This is what happens in Volume 7 of the History, entitled, Defeat and restitution of modernity, summarizes the idea that their authors, teachers and Sunday Ródenas Jordi Gracia, are of aesthetic developments between 1939 and 2010. The war was a "heinous topping" of the intellectual life of the title defeat as Lain wrote about the university in consciousness Disclaimer (More exculpatory justification, well in retrospect, that a withdrawal), but many writers out of humiliation Franco-refund-well before they could do the Franco regime.
Of the nine projected volumes, some already published, this is the one that presented major difficulties. The liquid state of the contemporary demands of the historian, in the absence of incontestable doctrine, monitoring critical to avoid being dragged by the occurrences, the complicity Amicale, ideological bias, itching of originality at all costs or public areas. But also accurate responsibility for what is offered here is the outline of future royalties. One might question the relevance of dealing with the same pattern as that used for previous literature, that of the past ... say five years, whose knowledge is necessarily more limited tax chance. For the rest, and saved these very last years, we have issues and reliable analysis. Fortunately, after the paste structuralist and poststructuralist four decades ago, the situation has changed significantly philological studies. Now the danger is the absence of hierarchies, and we know that the gaps tend to be filled immediately: if history is not made by historians, will make the publicists, journalists, secret meetings of writers, awards, publishing interests or, heaven knows, the responsible ministry.
Unable to read the whole thing, it is imperative to choose either the authorities in which support their own views, and that they have done admirably Gracia and Rodenas. That said, the signatories of this volume, whose merit is not the least that seems to write with a feather, often known from contemporary letters, but do not prancing flourishes, and tempt the clothes before issuing their judgments always measured. Much more descriptive than prescriptive, This book is not intended to impose order, but find it, set the sequence of artistic movements and its relationship to the cultural model, and examine the specificity of the texts to provide readers with the tools necessary for discernment.
Its more than a thousand pages have a tripartite organization: a section for the literary system, one for authors and works, and a third supporting material. Each is available in turn in three temporal strata: postwar, sixties and seventies, the democratic period. The multiple sub-sections chronologically travel times, and creep essay is not interrupted every so often with dilated parentheses case of authors whose work is developed over a long time. So, writers and Torrente-lived as Cela, Delibes and Buero or are treated in several sections distant from one another, depending on the location of the sections of writing, which implies the prevalence of changeable values \u200b\u200bof the time on the deceptively immutable individual poetic, and at the step, helps to understand the works in the broth is cooked, to the detriment of shelves generational and founding date (1939, 1975 ...) or even gender barriers. Thus we are shown a living body, with constant contamination vertical and horizontal relationships between old and young, inner exiles and writers, works with youth and maturity, growers of gender and other (indicate the importance of trial and memoirs). And add the attention to works in languages \u200b\u200bother than Castilian, by osmosis evident between their literary productions. An index of names provides timely consultation and consent to the mental reorganization of the content as determined by the reader.
starched front of the speech many scholarly publications, of this volume is lively and juicy, away from everything stiffness. Of course this does not history will definitely come back to the beginning of these lines ", but indispensable for further" stories ", which is expected to exclude many of those now listed here (even if they incorporated one who did not figure): in the panoramas of contemporary materials the choice is risk include a bargain, which tend to disappear over time, or give up a pearl, which might not ever recover. The authors have chosen, I think rightly, the first thing. In any case this book, excellent for so many concepts, is already an indispensable navigational compass for guidance in the recent literature, and exemplifies how few offspring of the old humanism.
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grade changes
The abundant information on Beat writers and restitution of modernity is far from giving a mere catalog Scholar , as numerous quotations from texts do not make this book a brothel. What prevents a guiding principle that resists the temptation to equal or indiscriminate.
Some authors are treated as if their unique texture, or say to yourself genius, moral and aesthetic reasons convene collective, with which commit dialog modules or refuting bitterly. These names highlight the pervasive absence of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Sánchez Ferlosio (whose literature is "the most pungent of the tragic thought the last half century), Juan Benet (innovator of a style that, in his words, from the seventeenth only had left the tavern to go to church) and several others. And although the book travels swiftly on a path of almost three quarters of a century, there are some elevation changes and are deserving close monitoring and critical heat remarkable. Thus, the first return of exiles to 1947, when Spain was beginning to get used their own uniqueness and start international shielding of Franco, and irreversible in 1953: the poem Landing, Carlos Sahagun, it notes with dismay. Even so nuanced realistic formulas decline in the sixties, between the crust and return system of modern Europe, while the perplexed conscience was torn between what Augustine is not finished to go and what did not quite get. In all realize Ródenas Jordi Gracia and Sunday without getting hair in the flap, and that the task seemed, cyclopean, impossible: he tried it, you know.
Other volumes of the History of English literature, led by José-Carlos Mainer, which has the historical process of nearly a thousand years of literature in Spain, who have left: 3. The Century of New Art: 1598-1691, by Pedro Ruiz Pérez. 5. Towards a national literature: 1800-1900, Cecilio Alonso. 6. Modernity and nationalism: 1900-1939, by José-Carlos Mainer.
History of English Literature 7.
Defeat and return of modernity. 1939-2010
Jordi Gracia and Sunday Ródenas
Criticism. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2011
XVI + 1184 pages. EUR 39.50
Article: http://www.elpais.com 26/03 / 2011
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