It Is a Matter of Age: The Rejection of Inheritance in Josep Maria Benet i Jornet’s Testament and Ventura Pons’ Amic/Amat

• Miquel Bota ^[1]
  1. [1] California State University, Sacramento

     California State University, Sacramento

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 99, Nº 4, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature), págs. 725-740
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article offers a new reading of the play Testament (1995) by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet (1940–2020) and its filmic adaptation Amic/Amat (1999) by Ventura Pons (b.1945). I will examine the extent to which Western master narratives on age and masculinity are subverted and/or affirmed, in both the play and film, and what this tells us about the depiction of ageing masculinities within the cultural context of Spain.