THE GENERAL CARACTERISTICS OF THE GOTHIC NOVEL IN SPAIN

 

 The general characteristics of the Gothic novel in Spain

In Spain is the source of crime fiction with a novel written in Catalan by Rafael Tasis (1906-1966) entitled A crim to Parallel (1960), a thriller that explodes Reef inteligentmente the cabarets of the city of Barcelona in the 30s, with the role of the curator and journalist Vilagut Caldes.Thus, the thriller in Spain appears strongly and widely in the postwar black Francoist repression portraying climate and prevailing moral corruption. Catalonia is a land of great writers of detective novels in both Castilian and Catalan, it must not be a coincidence, as this type this type of novel develops its arguments in urban areas in large cities. In the case of Spain, Barcelona is one of the main stages of many crime novels that portray both the oppressive environment of the cells of the civil and police guard Franco, as the world of wheeling and dealing, smuggling, and daring breakout Barcelona Parallel cabarets. The Spanish thriller is, therefore, a mixture of detective story with social commentary. Describe conflicts, crime, violence and sex in a corrupt society, leaving aside politics and ideology changing and despite repression.In Spanish, authors like Thomas Salvador and Fernando Martinez Lainez are considered the pioneers of this genre, but this famous novel titled Meat barter, which was released in 1977. Other prominent authors from this period are Manuel Vasquez-Montalban (series opened with Tattoo Carvalho 1977), Eduardo Mendoza and Manuel de Pedrolo.Later, in the eighties, with new socio-political conditions, you exceed these baseline characteristics conditioned by the Franco regime and evolving thriller portraying modern social aspects. In these years, there is a boom in production genre novel itself, which also covers the erotic and to a lesser degree, science fiction, mythical fantasy, humor and terror. A great crime novelist of this period is Ferran Torrent Valencia, which portrays social and political corruption with touches of humor. It is in this second period where we place the work of Elia Barceló has written numerous works of science fiction and fantasy. And the novel opens in black with Long Shadows (2009).The plot of this genre aspects are related to fear, violence, injustice, insecurity and corruption. Common is the appearance of the characters in places where prevailing political and moral corruption. The crime occurs in degraded environments where most frequently committed crime and the resolution is not a primary objective, but not explicit elucidation of moral motivation, since the characters often cross the barrier between good and evil. Often, the motivation of the crime due to some human weakness: anger, lust for power, envy, hatred, greed, lust, etc. Stylistically, the dialogues show crude language, often street, gives more importance to the development of the action that crime analysis, description and sometimes impressionistic naturalist society and there is a reflection, sometimes not explicit, the ethical deterioration.

By: Oreto Doménech & Corpus Requena 

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PROJECT WORK

COMENIUS 2012-2013
 
EUROPEAN DETECTIVE STORIES

Students who participate have to suggest the title of a crime novel or black whose plot takes place in Spain.

The novel is to serve as an instrument to show the Spanish culture (customs, cuisine, art ...) to other participating European countries.

Each student participant will find a work in line with these characteristics and make a summary sheet as follows:

Listing chosen work
      
1. Site Details

             1.1. Author:
             1.2. Title:
             1.3. Editorial:
             1.4. Year of publication:
             1.5. Brief summary of the work (at least 15 lines, up to 25 or 30 lines, double-spaced, font: Times New Roman, font size 12).

      2. Student Information
             2.1. Name and surname.
             2.2. Course to which it belongs.

All these data will be sent in an email, before Sunday October 15, through a kind word attachment (. Doc) or similar to the following address:
   
melva.comenius @ gmail.com

In the "SUBJECT" will only mail the name of the student / group you belong to and.

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WHO IS ELIA BARCELÓ? A SMALL BIOGRAPHY

Elia Barceló was born in Elda, Alacant, Spain, in January 29, 1957). She is Writer.
 She studied Anglogermanica Philology in the city of Valencia in 1979 and Spanish Philology at the Universities of Alacant and Innsbruck (in Austria). She received his doctorate in the latter in 1995. Since 1981 lives in Austria, where she teaches Hispanic literature.
It is considered one of the most important writers in the Spanish language, the genre of science fiction, along with Angelica Argentina Gorodischer and Daina Chaviano Cuban. The three formed the "female trinity of science fiction in Latin America".
Part of his work has been translated into French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and Esperanto. Since 1997 he also writes young adult literature.
She is a member of honor of Nocte, the Spanish Association of Horror Writers.

REFERENCE SOURCE: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Barcel%C3%B3

 

OUR NOVEL OF REFERENCE: "LAS LARGAS SOMBRAS"

The students participating in the project, should read the novel "Las largas sombras" ("The long shadows") by Elia Barceló

ARGUMENT / SUMMARY The long shadows 
Rita just found her friend Lena dead in the bathroom of his home. From the outset, the police ruled out suicide. This is apparently a murder, and although no one can quite figure out the motive, the victim's friends become the prime suspects. All of them, who just turned 50, are known since adolescence and share a terrible secret buried deep in his past. Gradually the friends will have each other's misery and obsessions, his unfulfilled dreams, hopes, and take the reader to the year 1974, when he made a trip to prom with other partners of the same class and will lead the point starting from a nightmare that will never wake up. With a skillful and very personal mix of genres, The long shadows of the book goes beyond police, the portrait of an era or the nostalgic sentimentality of its protagonists. What is here pound is a battle to the death with the life that has been lived.

Source: http://www.acerliteraria.com/L/root/elia_barcelo_libros.html