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Psychoanalysing the Nation. A Comparative Reading of António Lobo Antunes’ Memória de elefante and Luis Martín-Santos’s Tiempo de silencio.
- Source :
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Orbis Litterarum . Oct2008, Vol. 63 Issue 5, p403-421. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- This article argues that Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes’ first work of fiction, Memória de elefante, can usefully be viewed in a comparative context alongside Spaniard Luis Martín-Santos’s novel Tiempo de silencio. Both novels represent a narrative response to dictatorship, and they display common strategies to engage their readers in a psychoanalytic interpretation of late twentieth-century Spain and Portugal and the existence of complicit attitudes to dictatorship therein. A reading of Lobo Antunes’ little discussed novel in the light of works by a comparable Spanish novelist, about whom there is a strong critical tradition, highlights significant new features and refutes the prevailing view of his early work as being postcolonial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CRITICISM
*DICTATORSHIP in literature
*PSYCHOANALYSIS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01057510
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Orbis Litterarum
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34293641
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00938.x