Resumen de La "idea de la familia" como configuración: "Saúl ante Samuel" de Juan Benet
Spanish writer Juan Benet defines Saúl ante Samuel (1980), a work conversing with the genre of the family novel as a national allegory, as a literary-theoretical textthat presents ‘exclusively literary substance’. How does this relate to the overarchingliterary genre? The link between the text as a theoretical essay and as a family novel isprovided by the conception of ‘an idea as a constellation of stars’, that Walter Benjaminpresents in the prologue to The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928). With the help ofWalter Benjamin’s conceptualization, it is shown to what extent the constellations of thisliterary family provide a historical-philosophical idea of the history of Spain.
