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- Title
Ghosts as Storytellers: Absences and the Phantasmagorical Nature of Javier Marías's Narrators.
- Authors
PÉREZ-CARBONELL, MARTA
- Abstract
This article explores the treatment of absences and the role they play in the narrations of Javier Marías's spectral narrators. Whilst some of their typically ghostly characteristics have been mentioned before (their unstable identities and watchful attitude), this article aims to examine these traits in light of the theories around spectrality and link them with the portrayal of a variety of absences: negative forms, verbal absences and lack of witnesses all arise as dominant features in the lives of Marías's narrators. The main objective is to determine the relationship between these absences and the uncertainty which permeates Marías's fictional stories.
- Subjects
MARIAS, Javier, 1951-2022; PHANTASMAGORIA; GHOSTS in literature; STORYTELLING; NARRATION; NARRATORS in literature
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2016, Vol 93, Issue 5, p495
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2016.30