Myth and History in the Contemporary Spanish Novel by Jo Labanyi - 9780521288460

Myth and History in the Contemporary Spanish NovelAuthor(s): Jo Labanyi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521288460, 978-0521288460\nSynopsis\nSince the Civil War, Spanish novelists have produced a noteworthy body of fiction. In this book, Jo Labanyi provides detailed textual analysis of six of the most important novels to have been written during this period: Martin-Santos' Tiempo de silencio, Benet's Volvers a Regin, Mars's Si te dicen que ca, Cela's San Camilo, 1936, Juan Goytisolo's Reivindicacin del conde don Julin, and Torrente Ballester's La saga/fuga de [url] The focus on myth as a response to history is intended as a corrective to archetypal myth criticism, and stresses the variety of ways in which Spanish novelists have resorted to myth, and the need to relate their use of it to the historical context of Francoist ideology. The book also raises important general issues about the ways .