Idle Fictions

The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926–1934, Expanded edition

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Spanish & Portuguese
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Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat ISBN: 9780822382621
Publisher: Duke University Press Publication: September 22, 1993
Imprint: Duke University Press Books Language: English
Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat
ISBN: 9780822382621
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication: September 22, 1993
Imprint: Duke University Press Books
Language: English

The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated "a class war not between social classes but between literary classes." Concentrating on source material not widely available, Pérez Firmat reconstructs the reception these novels received at the time of their publication, then develops a reading of them based on the intellectual context of this reception. A new preface and an appendix on vanguard biographies have been added to this paperback edition.

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The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated "a class war not between social classes but between literary classes." Concentrating on source material not widely available, Pérez Firmat reconstructs the reception these novels received at the time of their publication, then develops a reading of them based on the intellectual context of this reception. A new preface and an appendix on vanguard biographies have been added to this paperback edition.

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