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By exploring how Spain's leading contemporary author continues and modifies the tradition of flaneur literature (Poe, Baudelaire, Benjamin) in novels and urban sketches between 1987 and 2009, this study adds to Muñoz Molina criticism which has ignored cross-cultural aspects of his texts. The author's Spanish renegotiation of the primitivist, Orientalist, and colonialist heritage of flaneur literature is of interest to scholars in Spanish cultural and postcolonial studies, twentieth and twenty-first Spanish literature, comparative literature, and new modernism.
List of contents
Introduction
Purpose of this Study
Chapters
Muñoz Molina Criticism
Chapter 1: Lisbon Flanerie:
San Sebastián
Lisbon
Saint Victoire
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Moroccan Flanerie
The preface of Córdoba de los omeyas
Ardor guerrero
El jinete polaco
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Chinese Flanerie:
Baudelaire
Lorca
Primitivism
China
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Lunar Flanerie
Chapter 5: Allegorical Flanerie
The Architect
Flanerie
National Allegory
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
Richard Sperber is associate professor of German and Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Carthage College.
