Tradition and Renewal in "La gloria de don Ramiro" (PDF)

Introduction (p. 1)

Starting with the assumption that all literature, being an expression of the assimilation of other works of literature, reflects not only an external reality, but a fictional reality as well, the principal aim of this study will be to place Enrique Larreta`s novel, La gloria de don Ramiro.

Una vida en tiempos de Felipe II (1908) within the European and Spanish-American literary tradition, representative of various intellectual and literary currents that had been influential during the nineteenth century.

Born in Argentina to a Uruguayan family of Spanish- Basque ancestry, Enrique Larreta (1873-1961), like many of his Spanish-American contemporaries, turned to France for manners, artistic inspiration, literary sources, philosophical thought.

This attitude is not difficult to understand, a review of nineteenthcentury Spanish-American literature immediately reveals its major problem: anxious to establish the literature of a politically, socially, and culturally emerging continent (with striking differences from one country to the next), and unwilling to follow the tradition of Peninsular Spanish literature for reasons of independence and a newly born national pride, most writers adapted the French models to the Spanish-American reality.

Thus, the themes and styles of Chateaubriand, Balzac, and Zola, among others, are often found in the same work: the romantic element was necessary, since a large part of the reading public was female, realistic elements mirrored a body of people in desperate need to "see" themselves in their literature, naturalistic touches, here and there, exposed the cruder side of the new society, often emphasizing the need for progress and reform.

Also, inconsistencies of style, often marked by gallicisms and syntactical oddities, produced a rather peculiar sort of literature that reflected the search for appropriate modes of expression.

One detail that distinguished Larreta in a radical

Dieses eBook können Sie uneingeschränkt auf allen Geräten der tolino Familie lesen. Zum Lesen auf sonstigen eReadern und am PC benötigen Sie eine Adobe ID.