Catholic Iconography in the Novels of Juan Marsé
Rosemary Clark
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Catholic Iconography in the Novels of Juan Marsé
Rosemary Clark
Ă propos de ce livre
The prize-winning novelist Juan MarsĂ©, born in Barcelona in 1933, is widely-read not only within Spain but also in translation, for his often provocative portrayals of life in post-war Barcelona. Clark's study discusses MarsĂ©'s engagement with Catholic popular culture, Spanish National Catholicism and Catalan Catholic Nationalism, exploring his subversion of iconic imagery as an ironic sub-textual commentary on political ideology, by which he is able to experiment with outer reality and inner reconstructions of experience. Dr Clark shows how religious and profane visions of love are subtly intertwined, how the tales told by children and the novel form itself are interrelated, and finally how a variety of biblical topoi, ranging from the Garden of Eden to the Song of Songs, are deployed in MarsĂ©'s fiction. Particular attention is paid to La oscura historia de la prima Montse, Si te dicen que ca and Im genes y recuerdos. ROSEMARY CLARK lectures in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge. El novelista Juan MarsĂ©, nacido en Barcelona en 1933 y ganador de varios premios internacionales, es un autor muy leĂdo no solamente en España sino tambiĂ©n en otros paĂses del mundo, a travĂ©s de traducciones, y su obra se aprecia especialmente por sus descripciones provocativas de la vida cotidiana en la Barcelona de posguerra. La monografĂa de Clark analiza el profundo interĂ©s que sentĂa MarsĂ© por la cultura popular catĂłlica y el nacionalcatolicismo - tanto en su forma española como en su forma catalana. Demuestra que la manera en que MarsĂ© utiliza los Ăconos y las proyeciones visuales del Catolicismo constituye un comentario irĂłnico y sutil sobre la ideologĂa polĂtica de la Ă©poca franquista. Las novelas de MarsĂ© - especialmente La oscura historia de la prima Montse, Si te dicen que caĂ y ImĂĄgenes y recuerdos -- exploran los lindes entre la realidad objetiva y la reconstrucciĂłn sujetiva de aquella realidad en el mundo de la ficciĂłn.