Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 37 | 101 | 2014
Research Article | Historicity and Guilt in Muerte de un ciclista and Ca’ídos del cielo

Historicity and Guilt in Muerte de un ciclista and Ca’ídos del cielo

This article offers an explanation of Spain’s historicity, from the dictatorship to the consolidation of the democracy, by comparing the assassins of Juan Antonio Bardem’s Muerte de un ciclista (1955) and Ray Loriga’s Caídos del cielo (1994). The criminal acts affect the poetics of film and novel, which examination unveils the character’s temporality (Deleuze and Ricoeur) and guilt. This paper moves on to demonstrate how Bardem and Loriga’s poetics of composition replicate an image of the criminals’ historic condition conceptualized from the symbol of Adam’s fall. Its interpretation is later contrasted with the historicity of Spain, whose politics of memory in relation with the Civil War is affected by the oblivion of guilt (Franco’s dictatorship) and grounded on the contradictory idea of forgiveness (democracy).


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Published: June 9, 2014 | Language: es

Copyright © 2014 Carles Murillo Mir . This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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