Idle Fictions - The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926-1934, Expanded edition

"Perez Firmat provides rich insight into the esthetic values and the artistic tensions that prevailed in the '20s and '30s (not only in the Hispanic world). His is a book of consummate originality that bears the imprint of a critic as strong-minded as he is perceptive. It is certainly a work of enviable maturity."--John W. Kronik, Cornell University

List of contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition ix

Introduction xi

Part 1: Criticism

1. The Vanguard Novel as a Discursive Category 3

2. A Pneumatic Aesthetics 40

Part 2: Novels

3. Closed World 67

4. Decharacterization 81

5. From Palimpsest to Pastiche 100

6. The Novel as Matrass 121

Conclusion: Hermes in and out of the Subway 139

Notes 143

Bibliography 154

Appendix: Vanguard Saints 169

Index 179

About the author

Gustavo Pérez Firmat is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies and Professor in the Program in Literature, Duke University. He is the author of numerous books.

Product details

• Authors: Gustavo P?rez Firmat, Gustavo Pberez Firmat, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Gustavo Perez-Firmat
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.1993
• EAN: 9780822314233
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1423-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies