True Lies : Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel

Amago, Samuel

Bucknell Univ Pr（2007/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 215 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780838756614
• DDC分類 863.709353

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"True Lies" is a comprehensive study of the evolving functions of narrative self-consciousness in contemporary Spain. While the foundational studies of metafiction - by Alter, Scholes, Hutcheon, Waugh, Spires, and others - have illustrated how self-conscious writing serves to blur the distinction between reality and fiction in order to draw attention to the dynamic processes of literary representation, "True Lies" takes into account a fundamental issue overlooked by earlier treatments of the genre: namely, the importance of consciousness itself to this type of fiction. In the contemporary Spanish cultural context, novelists have increasingly explored the role of narrative in the construction and understanding of the self. This book shows how recent novels by Rosa Montero, Nuria Amat, Javier Cercas, Juan Jose Millas, Javier Marias, and Carlos Caneque use metafiction in order to question the relationship between reality and make-believe; to scrutinize the dynamic nature of personal identity; to problematize the historiographical enterprise; to evaluate critically the processes of canon formation; and to parody themselves and the poetics of self-consciousness.Samuel Amago is an Assistant Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Notre Dame.