Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison (2008) Psychoanalysing the nation. A comparative reading of António Lobo Antunes’ Memória de elefante and Luis Martín-Santos’s Tiempo de silencio. Orbis Litterarum, Vol.63 (No.5). pp. 403-421. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00938.x

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Abstract

This article argues that Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes’ first work of fiction, Memória de elefante, can usefully be viewed in a comparative context alongside Spaniard Luis Martín-Santos’s novel Tiempo de silencio. Both novels represent a narrative response to dictatorship, and they display common strategies to engage their readers in a psychoanalytic interpretation of late twentieth-century Spain and Portugal and the existence of complicit attitudes to dictatorship therein. A reading of Lobo Antunes’ little discussed novel in the light of works by a comparable Spanish novelist, about whom there is a strong critical tradition, highlights significant new features and refutes the prevailing view of his early work as being postcolonial.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Hispanic Studies
Journal or Publication Title:	Orbis Litterarum
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN:	0105-7510
Official Date:	2008
Dates:	Date Event 2008 Published
Volume:	Vol.63
Number:	No.5
Page Range:	pp. 403-421
DOI:	10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00938.x
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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