A bric-à-brac from the Belle Époque

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_426
dc.creator	Carol Geronès Lídia
dc.title	A bric-à-brac from the Belle Époque. A Study of the Novel Fortuny (1983) by Pere Gimferrer
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	es
dc.description.abstract	Fortuny (1983) by Pere Gimferrer is the only novel (at least to date) that the author has written in Catalan and it represents one of the most unique novels of contemporary Hispanic narrative. The aims of the present study are mainly two: to shed light on one of the most important, but least studied, works by Pere Gimferrer, the greatest representative of Hispanic creativity for the Post-War Generation, and to analyse critical reception of the work and show how the novel has evolved from the time of publication in 1983 until today. This essay consists of three major parts: the study of critical reception, the narratological analysis of the text and the unveiling of the textual, but above all visual, references that make up the novel. The latter allows us to explain two essential elements of the novel: the imaginary Fortuny on the one hand and, on the other, the novel’s intertextual concrete figure of speech, its ekphrasis. The study of this intentionally visual character of the novel not only wanted to highlight the importance of two arts to which Gimferrer has always paid special attention – we refer to cinema and painting – but has also demonstrated the desire of the writer to innovate the Catalan narrative scene, using different literary devices to push the limits of the genre novel.
dc.relation.ispartof	Library of Rassegna iberistica
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-434-9
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-08-06
dc.dateAccepted	2020-05-11
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-04-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-435-6/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-435-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-434-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aestheticism
dc.subject	Belle Époque
dc.subject	Catalan contemporary novel
dc.subject	Critical reception
dc.subject	Culturalism
dc.subject	Ekphrasis
dc.subject	Fortuny
dc.subject	Gimferrer, Pere
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Literature and cinema
dc.subject	Orientalism
dc.subject	Venice

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A bric-à-brac from the Belle Époque

A Study of the Novel Fortuny (1983) by Pere Gimferrer

Lídia Carol Geronès Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia

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abstract

Fortuny (1983) by Pere Gimferrer is the only novel (at least to date) that the author has written in Catalan and it represents one of the most unique novels of contemporary Hispanic narrative. The aims of the present study are mainly two: to shed light on one of the most important, but least studied, works by Pere Gimferrer, the greatest representative of Hispanic creativity for the Post-War Generation, and to analyse critical reception of the work and show how the novel has evolved from the time of publication in 1983 until today. This essay consists of three major parts: the study of critical reception, the narratological analysis of the text and the unveiling of the textual, but above all visual, references that make up the novel. The latter allows us to explain two essential elements of the novel: the imaginary Fortuny on the one hand and, on the other, the novel’s intertextual concrete figure of speech, its ekphrasis. The study of this intentionally visual character of the novel not only wanted to highlight the importance of two arts to which Gimferrer has always paid special attention – we refer to cinema and painting – but has also demonstrated the desire of the writer to innovate the Catalan narrative scene, using different literary devices to push the limits of the genre novel.

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Aug. 6, 2020

Accepted

May 11, 2020

Submitted

April 20, 2020

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978-88-6969-435-6

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-434-9

Keywords

Orientalism • Intertextuality • Belle Époque • Catalan contemporary novel • Venice • Ekphrasis • Critical reception • Aestheticism • Literature and cinema • Culturalism • Fortuny • Gimferrer, Pere

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