Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 40 | 108 | 2017
Research Article | The Impossible Happiness of a Fool
The Impossible Happiness of a Fool
- Germana Volpe - Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” - email
The essay analyses the novel Historia de un idiota contada por él mismo o el contenido de la felicidad (1986) by Félix de Azúa. It defines the narrative structure of the text as well as it reveals its philosophical basis, mostly its close relationship with Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes (Phenomenology of Spirit), which allows to shift from an autobiographical interpretation (as suggested by the title) to a social one, in a wider perspective. Using the magnifying glass of the rich intertextuality of Azúa’s novel, the article points out a further reading concerning its postmodern framework: everything in the text is deconstructed, not only the different spheres of human life, but also the main character’s subjectivity and the idea itself of the hardly searched happiness.
Submitted: Feb. 13, 2017 | Accepted: March 23, 2017 | Published: Dec. 13, 2017 | Language: it
Keywords Félix de Azúa Happiness Deconstruction Intertextuality Postmodernism
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ECF_article_1268 |
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dc.title |
The Impossible Happiness of a Fool. An Essay on a Novel by Félix de Azúa |
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dc.contributor.author |
Volpe Germana |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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dc.type |
Research Article |
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dc.language.iso |
it |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2017/108/limpossibile-felicita-di-un-idiota/ |
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dc.description.abstract |
The essay analyses the novel Historia de un idiota contada por él mismo o el contenido de la felicidad (1986) by Félix de Azúa. It defines the narrative structure of the text as well as it reveals its philosophical basis, mostly its close relationship with Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes (Phenomenology of Spirit), which allows to shift from an autobiographical interpretation (as suggested by the title) to a social one, in a wider perspective. Using the magnifying glass of the rich intertextuality of Azúa’s novel, the article points out a further reading concerning its postmodern framework: everything in the text is deconstructed, not only the different spheres of human life, but also the main character’s subjectivity and the idea itself of the hardly searched happiness. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Rassegna iberistica |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 40 | Issue 108 | December 2017 |
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dc.issued |
2017-12-13 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2017-03-23 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2017-02-13 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2037-6588 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.14277/2037-6588/Ri-40-108-17-4 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Deconstruction |
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dc.subject |
Deconstruction |
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dc.subject |
Félix de Azúa |
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dc.subject |
Félix de Azúa |
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dc.subject |
Happiness |
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dc.subject |
Happiness |
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dc.subject |
Intertextuality |
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dc.subject |
Intertextuality |
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dc.subject |
Postmodernism |
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dc.subject |
Postmodernism |
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