Anuario de Letras Modernas

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Authors: Consejo Editorial

Presentación del número.

21-32

Authors: Claudia Ruiz García

In this essay two French novels, "La Messaline Française" and "L’Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux", of the eighteenth century are reviewed. They il-lustrate some aspects of the contemporary representation of sexuality, and at the same time they denounce religious institutions —church and monarchy— that support the old regime.

43-53

Authors: Mariapia Lamberti

The plague has been described many times during centuries: sometimes it has been only visualized as a catastrophy, but also like a cause of regeneration of humanity. Tucydides on classical Greece, but also Boccaccio in Middle Age, Manzoni at the Romantical era, and eventually Camus in modern times have dedicated their literary art at plague description — and interpretation of its consecuences.

65-74

Authors: Monique Landais Choimet

The aim of this article is to highlight the relevance of the work of Albert Camus regarding the tenacious and sincere search for a balance between the absurdity of the human condition and the struggle waged by man to live on. For Camus, literature is only legitimate if it is, in all conscience, of daily events, social, political or economic, family, love or community, sensual, intellectual or spiritual order. This is how he stays clearly away from the idealistic and naturalists, surrealist and existentialist currents to carry out a lucid and peaceful struggle. Today many French writers pick up this arduous dedication to a present laudable.

83-97

Authors: Thomas Barège

This article is about Spanish translations of "À la recherche du temps perdu"’s Marcel Proust. We study all the translations in an historical perspective and ana-lyze how external issues influence the translation’s reception. Finally, we try to estimate which one is the best.

117-122

Authors: Gabriel Weisz

Somatographies in James Joyce’s "Dubliners" brings to the forefront a means to read some of his stories as literatures of the body, a narrative world that involves a vehicle to imagine and visualize the bodies of his characters. "Dubliners" take us into a journey where one can corroborate the depiction of physical change within each of the individuals in the text. This body-reading prompts an intimate bond between readers and characters. A mapping of the protagonists not only places characters in a text but also brings them close to our perceptions.

133-155

Authors: Luz Aurora Pimentel

Given Joyce’s statement that he had written "Dubliners" “for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness”, this article explores the stories in the collection under this light and taking into account the historical context behind the urban depres-sion apparent in the stories, from the 1801 Act of Union, through the Great Fam-ine in the middle of the xixth century. In this context of urban and economic depression aggravated by the inveterate obsession of the Irish “to escape, at all costs, from the ‘doomed and starving island’ and find safety elsewhere”, the main themes of the collection are first revised in the light of this context; then, some of the stories are subjected to a closer scrutiny—especially “The Sisters”, “A Little Cloud” and “The Dead”. The analytical revision emphasizes not only the “scrupulous meanness” of the style, which is the signature of the sober realism of the stories, but also the symbolic dimension that lies in Joyce’s narrative strat-egies of indirection, in that which is left untold, the absent story (gnomon) that casts its shadow or its light in the typically joycean epiphany, all of which con-stitutes the poetic and symbolic dimension of "Dubliners".

169-177

Authors: Marina Fe

n this article I read some of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories from the perspective of the so-called “American Gothic”. My purpose is to explore the subject of violence which is central in the narrative of this author together with her idea of grace, in the Christian sense of the term. O’Connor was a profoundly catholic writer and in her stories she expects that grace will touch not only her characters but also her readers. It is a sort of revelation that can take place in the conscience as the result of a terrible experience that transforms them.

193-205

Authors: Alejandro Merlín

It is not new the discussion that associates thinking with the origin of sadness. Where does the feeling of sadness of thinking come from? The Western tradition has historically linked the philosopher, the writer and the intellectual with different manifestations of melancholy, from the theory of humors, through moral theories of sadness, until the recurrence of this relationship as a literary theme. This paper is an interpretation of the evolution of the link between sadness and thought, from Hippocrates to Marsilio Ficino; since Robert Burton to Kierkegaard and to Fernando Pessoa.

214-216

Authors: Claudia Ruiz García

Reseña de Jean Starobinski. L'encre de la mélancolie

220-222

Authors: Nair María Anaya Ferreira

Reseña de Claudia Lucotti. De Perséfone a Pussycat. Voz e identidad en la poesía de Margaret Atwood

226-229

Authors: Renata Riebeling de Ávila

Reseña de Nair María Anaya Ferreira. Leer, traducir, reescribir