Literature under the Microscope: Taking a Closer Look at Ramón y Cajal’s Narrative Fiction

• Autores: Michael A. Gómez
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 95, Nº 1, 2018, págs. 55-77
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There is no doubt that Ramón y Cajal’s scientific activities are familiar to many. Less well known are his undertakings as a writer. This is not to say that these have been ignored by the author’s contemporaries or by critics. As to the latter, attention has been paid to topics ranging from the connection between such work and late nineteenth-century Spanish ‘regenerationism’, to the inspirations for Cajal’s production. It is with the latter that we are concerned—i.e., we focus on three figures whose tangential treatment in Cajal studies surprises: Locke, Voltaire and Swift. Each coincides significantly with Cajal, as much in their connections to the empirical view as in their preoccupation with the microscopic realm and its consequences for humanity.