Verena Boos's Blutorangen (2015): A German contribution to the literature of memory?

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  • Julia Auweiler Philipps-Universität Marburg

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.24.16343

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Spanish Civil War, historical memory, multiperspectivism, guilt, pact of forgetting

Abstract

The renewed interest in Spain’s recent past and the efforts of recovering historical memory has led to a considerable number of contemporary novels concerned with the Spanish Civil War, Francoism, and the Transition to democracy. Also other non-Spanish authors have currently taken up the topic, such as German writer Verena Boos in her debut novel Blutorangen (2015). This article argues that Blutorangen relates to the so-called literatura de la memoria not only on a formal level by using shifting points of view, flashbacks, and flashforwards, but also on the subject level by focusing on a multi-faceted depiction of the “Nationalist villain” (Hansen, 2011) as well as on the issues of guilt, forgetting and remembering.

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Julia Auweiler, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Institut für Romanische Philologie (IRP)

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Published

2019-12-30

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Auweiler, J. (2019). Verena Boos’s Blutorangen (2015): A German contribution to the literature of memory?. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 24(24), 253–269. https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.24.16343
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Vol. 24 (2019): To whom do the dead belong? Their memory and rest in literature

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