The Impossible Happiness of a Fool

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1268
dc.title	The Impossible Happiness of a Fool. An Essay on a Novel by Félix de Azúa
dc.contributor.author	Volpe Germana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2017/108/limpossibile-felicita-di-un-idiota/
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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 40 \| Issue 108 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-13
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-02-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2037-6588/Ri-40-108-17-4
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Deconstruction
dc.subject	Deconstruction
dc.subject	Félix de Azúa
dc.subject	Félix de Azúa
dc.subject	Happiness
dc.subject	Happiness
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Postmodernism
dc.subject	Postmodernism

Research Article
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An Essay on a Novel by Félix de Azúa

Germana Volpe Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

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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.

Published

Dec. 13, 2017

Accepted

March 23, 2017

Submitted

Feb. 13, 2017

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Keywords: Postmodernism • Happiness • Félix de Azúa • Intertextuality • Deconstruction

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