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Nature as enemy of man in Julio Llamazares's Luna de lobos
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O'Donoghue, Samuel (2014) Nature as enemy of man in Julio Llamazares's Luna de lobos. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 50 (3). pp. 356-370. doi:10.1093/fmls/cqu023 ISSN 0015-8518.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqu023
Abstract
To synopsize Luna de lobos as a fictionalized account of the struggle between Republican guerrillas and the Civil Guard in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War is clearly misleading. A close reading of the work reveals an additional protagonist in this guerrilla battle set in the mountains of northern Spain: the natural world. This article provides a close analysis of Llamazares's presentation of nature in order to support the assertion that the novel transcends the specificity of Spain's history to provide a broader existential study of man's place in the universe, in particular his relationship with the natural world. In Luna de lobos, nature is a hostile force that brutalizes the protagonists. This presentation of the natural world conforms to Llamazares's aesthetic concerns as a Romantic. For Llamazares, the relationship between man and nature has become irremediably fractured.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Hispanic Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Forum for Modern Language Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0015-8518 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 July 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 356-370 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/fmls/cqu023 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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