The entanglement of meaning: illness, literary history, and morality in four Catalan novels
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Epps, Brad [1]
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[1] Harvard University
Harvard University
City of Cambridge, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, ISSN-e 1469-9524, ISSN 1470-1847, Vol. 18, Nº. 2-3, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Narratives of Illness in Catalan Culture), págs. 101-127
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Resumen
For Albert Pallares, in memoriam This article examines the force and function of medical and literary historical typologies in four Catalan novels in which illness figures prominently: Narcís Oller's La bogeria (1899), Miquel de Palol's Camí de llum. Narracions d'un crepuscle (1909), Blai Bonet's El mar (1958), and Maria-Antònia Oliver's Tallats de lluna (2000). Spanning a century, the four novels have been classified as naturalist, modernista, tremendista, and loosely postmodern, respectively, and focus on three maladies – mental illness, tuberculosis, and AIDS – that are shot through with morally charged questions of responsibility and guilt. For all their explanatory benefits, typological protocols, be they medical or literary historical, precede and exceed any given subject and any given text in ways that tend to elide specificities and to underestimate the entanglement of meaning.
