scholarly journals La novel·la històrica en mans de Josep Lozano: Crim de Germania i El Mut de la Campana

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Maria Jesús Francés
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Frame Narrative ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
As If

Resum: Parlar de la novel·la històrica en la producció de Josep Lozano s’associa indubtablement a la prestigiosa obra Crim de Germania que l’autor riberenc mostrava al públic l’any 1980. Més de vint anys després reprenia aquest format per a crear El Mut de la Campana (2003) i, de nou, demostrava la seua mestria dins d’aquest gènere. L’objectiu i la configuració interna en ambdues és diferent però el que va empentar l’autor en la dècada dels 80 a usar aquesta vessant creativa tan de moda aleshores persisteix: tornar a un temps passat i contar-lo en una època actual a través del filtre de la ficció i així mostrar quina societat ha sigut i és la societat valenciana. Una societat, aquesta, que sobreïx en tot moment de les dues obres per a demostrar com funciona col·lectivament, així com què la determina des d’un punt de vista idiosincràtic. Paraules clau: novel·la històrica, marc, anàlisi narrativa, etnopoètica, folklore. Abstract: Any analysis about Josep Lozano’s historical novels is undoubtedly associated to his prestigious work Crim de Germania, which the Ribera born author released in 1980. Some 20 years later he created another historical novel, El Mut de la Campana (2003), once again showing his mastery of the genre. The purpose and structure of both works are different, but what motivated the author to use such a creative format in the 80’s persists today: travel back in time, and tell the story as if it were the modern day through a fictional filter and, in doing so, showing what Valencian society was like. A society, this one, which is prevalent throughout both works, shows how it works collectively as well as how it is defined by its idiosyncrasies.Keywords: historical literature, frame, narrative analysis, ethnopoetics, folklore.

scholarly journals Fragmentación en la novela histórica contemporánea sobre la Guerra Civil española

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Durba Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Javier Cercas ◽  
History Of ◽  
Novela Historica ◽  
Soldados De Salamina

RESUMEN España ha visto una nueva ola de literatura publicada en la primera década de este siglo que trata el tema de la Guerra Civil y que se nutre de las preocupaciones y debates que rodean al movimiento de la recuperación de la memoria de la guerra y la posguerra. Este trabajo pretende indagar en la representación de la Guerra Civil en la novela histórica en particular, centrándose en su estructura narrativa fragmentada. El artículo reconoce la yuxtaposición de diferentes elementos del discurso político, periodístico y historiográfico dentro de las narrativas histórico-ficcionales y la estudia según la idea posmoderna de fragmentación. A manera de ejemplo, toma el caso de dos escritores – Javier Cercas y Alberto Méndez – y sus obras Soldados de Salamina (2001) y El impostor (2014), y Los girasoles ciegos (2004) respectivamente. Se utilizan los ejemplos tomados de las tres novelas históricas contemporáneas para demostrar cómo los textos se convierten en sitios de recuperación de la memoria de la guerra y en herramientas de una reconstrucción novedosa pero crítica de la historia de España mediante la adopción de la fragmentación de manera textual, temática y discursiva. ABSTRACT Spain has witnessed a new wave of literature published in the first decade of this century that deals with the theme of the Civil War and that draws upon the concerns and debates surrounding the movement of recover the memory of the war and the postwar. This work attempts to analyze the representation of the Civil War in the historical novel in particular by focusing on its fragmented narrative structure. The article acknowledges the juxtaposition of different elements from political, journalistic and historiographic discourse within the historical-fictional narratives and studies it according to the postmodern idea of fragmentation. For the purpose of explanation, it takes the case of two writers – Javier Cercas and Alberto Méndez – and their works Soldados de Salamina (2001) y El impostor (2014), and Los girasoles ciegos (2004) respectively. The examples taken from the three contemporary historical novels are used to demonstrate how the texts become sites of recovery of the memory of the war and tools of a novel yet critical reconstruction of the history of Spain by adopting textual, thematic and argumentative fragmentation.

scholarly journals L’encaix de la narrativa sense ficció de Víctor Labrado en el paradigma de la novel·la històrica valenciana

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Dari Escandell
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Past Time ◽  
Non Fiction

Resum: L’escriptor valencià Víctor Labrado (Sueca, 1956) s’ha erigit com un dels grans referents contemporanis en el camp de la novel·la de no-ficció en català, subgènere narratiu que conjumina la intenció metanovel·lesca amb fidedignes discursos testimonials. Ara bé, ¿les obres cabdals de Labrado –peculiars, idiosincràtiques i gens usuals– poden ser considerades també, sense subterfugis ni matisos, novel·la històrica? A grans trets: trames guerracivilistes empeltades d’entrevistes, dosis generoses de periodisme documental i absència gairebé absoluta de ficció. La tècnica i l’estil propi no suposen, però, cap impediment perquè molts llibres seus siguen alhora novel·la històrica, si fem cas dels topoi convinguts per la crítica especialitzada. No debades, aquests exemplars esdevenen, al capdavall, testimoni viu d’un temps passat; vivències i peripècies de gent anònima que rescaten de l’oblit, des de la particularitat més universal, la realitat valenciana d’un segle passat vilment estigmatitzat pel conflicte civil de l’any 1936 i la dictadura consegüent. ¿N’hi ha prou amb això, però, perquè aquesta etiqueta o clixé siga atribuïble també a la resta de la seua obra i trajectòria? El present article analitza a nivell tècnic, argumental i conceptual els llibres essencials de Labrado per tal de determinar quina part de la seua novel·lística sense ficció pot o no considerar-se al seu torn novel·la històrica.Paraules clau: Víctor Labrado, novel·la sense ficció, novel·la històrica, literatura catalana, valencià.Abstract: The Valencian writer Víctor Labrado (Sueca, 1956) has emerged as one of the great contemporary references in the field of the non-fiction novel in Catalan, a narrative subgenre that combines the fictional intention with real testimonial speeches. However, can Labrado’s capital books –peculiar, idiosyncratic and unusual– be considered also, without subterfuges or hints, historical novels? Broadly speaking: are his Spanish civil war plots grafted with interviews, generous doses of documentary journalism and almost absolute absence of fiction, historical novels? Its techniques and style are no impediment to say so, if we pay attention to the topoi agreed by the specialized critic. In fact, these novels become, in short, a living testimony of our past time: they rescue from oblivion the experiences and adventures of anonymous people, from the most universal particularity, and the Valencian reality of a past century stigmatized by the civil conflict of 1936 and the consequent dictatorship. Is that enough, however, to attribute this label to the rest of his literary works? This paper analyses the techniques, the plots and the concepts of Labrado’s essential books to determine what part of his nonfiction novels may or may not be considered historical.Keywords: Víctor Labrado, nonfiction novel, historical novel, Catalan literature, Valencian

scholarly journals Een pasgeboren staat, of een recentelijk ontwaakte natie?

1970 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Nele Bemong
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
International Community ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Creation

Between 1830 and 1850, practically out of nowhere there came into beinga truly 'Belgian' literature, written boch in Flemish and in French, but aimedat a single goal: the creation of a Belgian past and the conscruction of aBelgian national identity. The historical novel played a crucial role in thisconscruction and representation of a collective memory for the Belgian statejust out of the cradle. The prefaces to these historical novels are characterizedboth by the central role granted to the representacion of Flanders as the cradleof nineteenth-century Belgium, and by the organically and religiously inspiredimagery. Attempts were made to create an intimate genealogical relationshipwith the forefathers, in order to make the Belgian citizens feel closer to theirrich heritage. Through the activation of specific recollections from theimmense archive of the collective cultural memory, Belgian independencefound its legitimization both towards the international community andtowards the Belgian people.

scholarly journals İlyas Esenberlin’in Gazap (Göçebeler III) ve Gabit Müsirepov’un Ulpan Romanlarında Kazak Hanı Kenesarı Karakteri / The Character Kenesary Khan in İlyas Esenberlin’s Novel Gazap (Göçebeler III) and in Gabit Müsirepov’s Novel Ulpan

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kundakcı
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Destructive Effect ◽  
Turkish Origin ◽  
Philosophical Life ◽  
Soviet Russia

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>In this article, a comparative study will be applied on the character Kenesary Khan in different works of Kazakh literature Gazap (Göçebeler III) (İlyas Esenberlin-1969) and Ulpan (Gabit Müsirepov-1974).</p><p>This study, which aims to show how the artistic understanding of the authors who use historical characters in the narrative genre is affected by the ideology of the period, will try to determine the destructive effect of socialist realism on the artistic and philosophical life of the Turkic geography.</p><p>It is accepted that historical novels, which can be accepted as the intersection of literature and history, correspond to a need in social life. Although both fields are different in nature and method, especially the narrative genre can make use of the unique opportunities of these two fields and reveal very important works examples. As can be understood from the examples mentioned above, the field of Kazakh literature is quite rich in this respect.</p><p>It will be pointed out the reasons why the literature, which declares that it aims to tell the truth, shows the nature of falsifying historical facts contrary to expectations. Historical traces that could answer the differences between these two periods were investigated for Turkish origin nations exploited in every sense both in Tsarist Russia and Soviet Russia.</p><p>It will be tried to reveal how the memory of nations has been destroyed by giving the historical facts via the character Kenesary Khan. Analyzes will be made about the evaluations that the historical novel type is used as an ideological propaganda tool in Soviet Russia.</p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p>Bu makalede Kazak edebiyatı sahasındaki farklı yazarlar tarafından farklı tarihlerde kaleme alınan Gazap (Göçebeler III) (İlyas Esenberlin-1969), Ulpan (Gabit Müsirepov-1974) eserlerinde ortak olarak kullanılan Kazak Hanı Kenesarı karakteri üzerinde karşılaştırmalı olarak durulacaktır.</p><p>Edebiyat ve tarihin kesişim alanı olarak kabul edilebilecek tarihî romanların toplumsal hayatta bir ihtiyaca karşılık geldiği kabul edilmektedir. Her iki alanın mahiyet ve metot olarak birbirlerinden farklı olmasına karşın özellikle anlatı türü bu iki alanın kendine has imkânlarından faydalanarak çok önemli eser örnekleri ortaya koyabilmektedir. Kazak edebiyatı sahası da yukarıda anılan eser örneklerinden anlaşılacağı üzere bu bakımdan oldukça zengindir.</p><p>Anlatı türündeki eserlerde tarihî karakterleri kullanan yazarların sanat anlayışının dönemin ideolojisinden ne kadar etkilendiğini göstermeye dönük bu çalışmada, özellikle ‘sosyalist realizm’in Türkî coğrafyanın sanat ve düşünce hayatındaki yıkıcı etkisi tespit edilmeye çalışılacaktır. Bu sahada gerçeği anlatmayı amaçladığını deklare eden edebiyatın, beklenenin aksine tarihî gerçekleri tahrif edecek bir mahiyet göstermesinin sebeplerine işaret edilecektir.  Yine bu çalışmada hem Çar Rusya’sı hem de Sovyet Rusya’sında her anlamda sömürülen Türk soylu milletler için bu iki dönemin farkının ne olduğuna cevap olabilecek tarihî izler araştırılmıştır.</p><p>Tarihî bir şahsiyet olan Kenesarı karakteri üzerinden milletlerin hafızasının nasıl tahrip edildiği, çalışmada ilgili karaktere ilişkin tarihî bilgiler de verilerek ortaya konulmaya çalışılacaktır. Ayrıca tarihî roman türünün Sovyet Rusya’da ideolojik bir propaganda aracı olarak kullanıldığı yönündeki değerlendirmelere ilişkin çözümlemeler yapılacaktır.</p>

Lud w lekcji Antoniny Domańskiej… (w powieściach historycznych o czasach Piastów i Jagiellonów)

2019 ◽  
pp. 96-113
Author(s):  
Ewa Ihnatowicz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Historical Novels

People from the Age of Piasts and Jagiellons in Domańska’s Lesson I interpret the images of the Medieval and Renaissance people in Antonina Domańska’s historical novels as a result of her historical thinking and as a key to her concept of historical novel for the youth. Description of contexts of these images also allowed the reconstruction of the writer’s inspiration.

Reading the Historical Novel: Reworking the Past and the Relation of Blackfeet History in James Welch's Fools Crow

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
SARAH MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
James Welch ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Impact

The article considers the political impact of the historical novel by examining an example of the genre by Native American novelist James Welch. It discusses how the novel Fools Crow represents nineteenth-century Blackfeet experience, emphasizing how (retelling) the past can act in the present. To do this it engages with psychoanalytic readings of historical novels and the work of Foucault and Benjamin on memory and history. The article concludes by using Bhabha's notion of the “projective past” to understand the political strength of the novel's retelling of the story of a massacre of Native Americans.

scholarly journals ANDEN VERDENSKRIG FORTALT FOR BØRN OG UNGE - HISTORIEFORTOLKNINGER I NYERE DANSK BØRNELITTERATUR

1970 ◽  
Vol 42 (117) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
World War ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Time Gap ◽  
Second World

SECOND WORLD WAR NARRATED FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNGSTERS. INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY IN NEW DANISH LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN | Children’s books about the Second World War have been written and published ever since it ended. One would perhaps imagine that the ever-increasing distance from it would mean a waning interest, but that does not seem to be the case. Over the last few years, a whole range of remarkable children’s books have appeared in Denmark. New things can still be written about this period, and the time gap can be said to have had the effect of freeing up material. This should not be taken as meaning that newer books are less reliable, historically speaking, but rather that they present the period in a new light. In this article a number of recent Danish novels will be discussed with respect to how they deal with history. It is not the intention to try to make non-fiction out of historical novels for children, which would mean reading the books in a manner which was at variance with the genre they belong to, but one of the premises of the article is that the historical novel is to be understood as a form of discourse lying somewhere between history and pure fiction. The historical novel is seen as a piece of fiction presenting one or several interpretations of a given period of history by setting its story in a particular context.

scholarly journals Les novel·les sobre la Transició valenciana. Una història de claudicacions i violència

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Joaquim Espinós Felipe
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Spanish Transition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Way

Resum: La Transició (1975-1982) constitueix un període històric controvertit. En els darrers anys, arran del moviment 15-M, s’han revifat a l’Estat espanyol les veus critiques amb el relat oficial. En l’àmbit valencià existeix un corpus de novel·les considerable que aporta informació rellevant sobre la manera com s’ha construït la memòria de la Transició valenciana. La distància existent entre l’actualitat i els anys en què se situen els fets, així com el desconeixement de les noves generacions sobre el tema, permet que aquestes novel·les puguen ser considerades, en un sentit amplei com a novel·les històriques, al mateix nivell que les ambientades en la Guerra Civil i la postguerra. Paraules clau: novel·la històrica, literatura catalana, País Valencià, Transició. .Abstract: The Spanish Transition (1975-1982) is a controversial historical period. In recent years, following the 15-M movement, we have witnessed in Spain a revival of voices critical of the official narrative. In the Valencian area there is a considerable corpus of novels that provide relevant information on the way how the memory of the Valencian Transition has been built. The distance existing between the present and the years in which the facts took place, as well as the ignorance of the new generations on the subject, allows us to consider these novels, in a broad sense, as historical novels, at the same level as those set in the Civil War and the post-war period.Keywords: historical novel, catalan literature, Spanish Transition, Valencia.

The Labours of History

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Price
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Charlotte Smith ◽  
Commercial Exchange ◽  
Sophia Lee ◽  
The Wanderer ◽  
The French Revolution

Chapter Two examines how the evocation of sympathy in the historical novel generates both radical and reformist historical fictions. The interrogation of chivalric sentiment, which begins with Sophia Lee, accelerates after the French Revolution. Responding to Edmund Burke, radical writers like Charlotte Smith, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft argue for a redistribution of sympathy and for a new, more rational historiography. After the Terror, these notions of history for the ‘mass’ were themselves subject to reformulation, notably in the historical novel of the recent past. Historicising the French Revolution, Charles Dacres (1797), Lioncel; or Adventures of an Emigrant (1803), Edgeworth’s ‘Madame Fleury’ (1809) and Burney’s The Wanderer [1814] explore the possibility of an commercial exchange at once sympathetic and economic. Along with other historical novels including Ann Yearsley’s The Royal Captives [1795] and Montford Castle [1795]), such works implicitly suggest the need for workers to be safely politicised.

God, King and Country: The Depiction of National Identity in Danish Historical Novels for Children

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA KARLSKOV SKYGGEBJERG
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
National History ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Hayden White

This article charts the depiction of national identity in the historical novel for children. The introduction defines the historical novel in general (with a review of theories by Georg Lukács and Hayden White), and then reflects upon the function of this genre in children's literature (drawing on studies by John Stephens, Åsfrid Svensen and Anna Adamik Jáscó). To cast light on the structure and development of national identity there is an analysis of two Danish historical novels for children: Marius Dahlsgaard's Thorkilds Træl[Thorkild's slave] (1932) and Lars-Henrik Olsen's Sagaen om Svend Pindehugger [The saga of Svend Pindehugger] (1993). These books deal with the same historical event – the conquest of Estonia in the thirteenth-century – and both novels are based on a national historical legend about the Danish flag. The article argues that the historical novel for children has moved away from purely heroic images and eulogies of king and nation, but is still rooted in national history and incorporates a strong emphasis on power relations fought out in wars.

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