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Title: | Perspectivismo narrativo y enjuiciamiento social en La familia de Pascual Duarte |
Authors: | Garrido Ardila, Juan Antonio |
Keywords: | Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002 -- Criticism and interpretation Cela, Camilo José, 1916-2002. Familia de Pascual Duarte Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 Picaresque literature, Spanish Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group, LLC |
Citation: | Garrido Ardila, J. A. (2014). Perspectivismo Narrativo y Enjuiciamiento Social en La familia de Pascual Duarte. Romance Quarterly, 61(4), 254-267 |
Abstract: | The phenomenal ambiguity and irony in Camilo Jose Cela’s La familia de Pascual Duarte has led to many often differing conclusions regarding its social message. While some scholars regard its protagonist as a victim of society and of the new regime that followed the Civil War, others have argued that Pascual is the evil perpetrator of unspeakable crimes who is rightly punished by the new order. This article proposes to reconsider the picaresque nature of this novel, focusing on two features of the picaresque genre, namely its political commitment (or poetica comprometida) and the determinism versus free will foil. This analysis will show that Cela replicated the Quevedian vilification of the protagonist and the Alemanian presentation of a false conversion at the end of the story with one purpose: to present Pascual as an unremorseful murderer who lived an irreligious life, killed his mother, and supported the Republican repression in his village killing the local aristocrat, before the new regime makes justice by executing him. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/102422 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtSpa |
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