La ceguedad de la derrota y la visión de la nada. La perspectiva del futuro en tiempos de represión vista a través de Nada y Los girasoles ciegos
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The purpose of this essay is to investigate, from the points of view of the novels Nada (1944) by Carmen Laforet and Los girasoles ciegos (2004) by Alberto Méndez, the perspective of the future toward the Spanish postwar period. Both novels take place during the Spanish postwar but were written in two different eras. Considering both periods, it is possible to evaluate whether the elapsed time and the time of publishing have influenced the varying perspectives of the future. Through a comparative method, differences and similarities of both the pessimistic and the optimistic perspectives become apparent. In this essay it is concluded that in the different publication dates of the novels there are elements that impact the way Laforet and Méndez relate the perspective of the future. The existentialism contemporary to Nada tends to influence the perspective of the future in a positive manner compared to Los girasoles ciegos, where the perspective of the future is related in a more negative way, due to the impact of the recovery of historical memory.
The purpose of this essay is to investigate, from the points of view of the novels Nada (1944) by Carmen Laforet and Los girasoles ciegos (2004) by Alberto Méndez, the perspective of the future toward the Spanish postwar period. Both novels take place during the Spanish postwar but were written in two different eras. Considering both periods, it is possible to evaluate whether the elapsed time and the time of publishing have influenced the varying perspectives of the future. Through a comparative method, differences and similarities of both the pessimistic and the optimistic perspectives become apparent. In this essay it is concluded that in the different publication dates of the novels there are elements that impact the way Laforet and Méndez relate the perspective of the future. The existentialism contemporary to Nada tends to influence the perspective of the future in a positive manner compared to Los girasoles ciegos, where the perspective of the future is related in a more negative way, due to the impact of the recovery of historical memory.
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Publiceringsår
2013
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Spanska
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Dokumenttyp
Examensarbete för kandidatexamen
Ämne
- Languages and Literatures
Nyckelord
- Alberto Méndez
- Carmen Laforet
- existencialismo
- la memoria
- Los girasoles ciegos
- Nada
- optimismo
- pesimismo
- posguerra.
Handledare
- Christian Claesson (Ph.D.)