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- Title
Ni moro ni cristiano: el descreimiento del héroe romántico en Martín Gil, de Manuel Fernández y González.
- Authors
Galiana, Javier Muñoz de Morales
- Abstract
The novels of Spanish Romanticism have been contrasted against their equivalents abroad for having protagonists with more atheistic and materialistic attitudes. But it has been proposed that this paradigm ends when the serial novel comes into fashion, with the paradigmatic case of Fernández and González; from then on, the romantic hero is dissolved. But what concerns this novelist is more complex, since he develops in one of his earliest texts, Martín Gil (1850–1851), a certain persistence in the use of a protagonist who is an unbeliever to the extreme. Although the intertextuality of that with other of his novels prevents denying that this discourse is integrated into another fully Catholic one, the use of the nihilistic character that arises here also connects with elements of the picaresque tradition, which in this case are claimed as something characteristic of Hispanic literature compared to the others.
- Subjects
MARTIN Gil: Memorias Del Tiempo De Felipe II (Book); FERNANDEZ y Gonzalez, Manuel; SPANISH literature; ROMANTICISM; ATHEISTS; PICARESQUE literature; INTERTEXTUALITY; NIHILISM; 19TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Hispanic Review, 2024, Vol 92, Issue 2, p311
- ISSN
0018-2176
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/hir.2024.a929142