Rewriting Franco’s Spain: Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory

244 Pages·2017·1.349 MB·English

by  Samuel O’Donoghue

Rewriting Franco’s Spain

Rewriting Franco’s Spain
Marcel Proust and the Dissident
Novelists of Memory
Samuel O’Donoghue
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction:DissidentNovelistsinFranco’sSpain xiii
1 ArtisticEducationandLiterarySelf-RealizationinNada(1945)
byCarmenLaforet 1
2 FromSocialRealismtoMemoryinSeñasdeidentidad(1966)
byJuanGoytisolo 47
3 JuanBenet’sCritiqueofProustandtheCreationofaSpanish
NouveauRomaninVolverásaRegión(1967)andUna
meditación(1970) 81
4 TheTransitiontoDemocracyandtheUrgencyofSelf-Writing
inElcuartodeatrás(1978)byCarmenMartínGaite 117
5 ALifeMadeWholebyLiteratureinL’écritureoulavie(1994)
andLegrandvoyage(1963)byJorgeSemprún 139
6 ProustianAestheticsandtheEthicsofHistoryWritinginTu
rostromañana(2002–2007)byJavierMarías 165
Conclusion 195
Bibliography 197
Index 207
AbouttheAuthor 213
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Acknowledgments
My gratitude is due first and foremost to my doctoral supervisor at Univer-
sityCollegeLondon,Dr.GarethWood,whosepatientreadingandperceptive
questions largely shaped the form this book ultimately took. If I were to
confess that the best ideas contained herein are his, it would be neither an
exaggeration nor a display of false modesty. Credit is due to others too:
James Agar made an invaluable contribution to my research on Juan Benet
by suggesting I look into the nouveau roman and into attitudes towards
Proust among French writers of the mid-twentieth century; Dr. Claire Lind-
sayhelpedtoguidemythinkingonthesubjectsofinfluenceandintertextual-
ity. Elena Pascual’s keen sensitivity to methodological incongruity helped
meto honemy sometimes muddled thinking.Dr.ChristineEastman’satten-
tive proofreading saved me no little embarrassment by helping to eliminate
syntactical inconsistencies and grammatical faux pas. Professor Herbert
Craig was generous with his encouraging feedback, as were my doctoral
examiners Dr. Stanley Black and Professor Timothy Mathews. Institutional
expertise at the University College London Library, the British Library, the
Senate House Library, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, and the Archivo
GeneraldelaAdministraciónwasreadilyaccessibleandmuchappreciated.I
am obliged also to the Arts and Humanities Research Council whose finan-
cial support made this research possible. The list of conference organizers
and participants, journal editors and anonymous reviewers whose unremu-
neratedyetmunificentlaborscontinuallyenrichedthisworkistooextensive
to enumerate here.Anyerrors that remain in thisbookin spiteof thegener-
ousinputofsomanyareofcourseentirelymyown.
Sections of this book have been published previously. Part of the Intro-
duction was published by Oxford University Press in an article entitled “In
Search of a Lost Culture: Dissident Translations in Franco’s Spain,” Forum
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