Desperate attempts to speak silence: fiction as an instrument for mourning
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https://doi.org/10.7203/diablotexto.2.10173Keywords:
mourning, Holocaust, novel, historical memory, fiction
Abstract
We propose an analysis of El comprador de aniversarios (2002) by Adolfo García Ortega, published at the beginning of the memory boom in Spain, as a posttraumatic narrative of mourning. We single out the novel from among other contemporary novel son the Spanish Civil War for its way of approaching the past, its use of fiction and for its subject. We draw parallels that exist between the novel and Dora Bruder (1997) by Patrick Modiano, which could have influenced García Ortega’s. The result of this mourning narrative is another way of understanding our relation in the present with (an)other violent past(s).
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Anthony Nuckols, Universitat de València
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