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For a Reading of Julio Llamazares’ La lluvia amarilla (1988) as a “Theatre of Ruins”

Barbara Greco    Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia    

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The article studies Llamazares’ novel La lluvia amarilla (1988) from a new perspective, which identifies the scenario of the work as a ‘theatre of ruins’. The essay opens with a reflection on the chromatic symbolism already suggested by the title and discernible also in Vilas’ novel Ordesa (2018), with which it seems to have a dialogical relationship. After a necessary reference to the lyricism of Llamazares’ prose, the Ainielle landscape is interpreted as a ‘literary landscape’, a concept that refers to the subjective experience of nature through the protagonist perceptive consciousness. In the second part of the article, the metamorphosis of Ainielle into a place of ruins (which also engulfs the narrator) is demonstrated, in a passage that is accomplished through the cemetery metaphor and the supernatural incursion. Finally, it illustrates the current state of Ainielle, a village in the Pyrenees, which has become a ‘place of memory’.

Published
June 22, 2022
Accepted
March 22, 2022
Submitted
Sept. 13, 2021
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IT

Keywords: Memoria • Rovine • Paesaggio letterario • Ruins • Luoghi della memoria • Julio Llamazares • La lluvia amarilla • Literary landscape • Manuel Vilas • Place of memory • Ordesa

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2022/18/003

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