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Rewriting Franco’s Spain Rewriting Franco’s Spain Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory Samuel O’Donoghue PublishedbyBucknellUniversityPress CopublishedbyTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2018bySamuelO’Donoghue Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataAvailable ISBN978-1-61148-863-0(hardback:alk.paper)|ISBN978-1-61148-861-6(ebook) TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ParaElena Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction:DissidentNovelistsinFranco’sSpain xiii 1 ArtisticEducationandLiterarySelf-RealizationinNada(1945) byCarmenLaforet 1 2 FromSocialRealismtoMemoryinSeñasdeidentidad(1966) byJuanGoytisolo 47 3 JuanBenet’sCritiqueofProustandtheCreationofaSpanish NouveauRomaninVolverásaRegión(1967)andUna meditación(1970) 81 4 TheTransitiontoDemocracyandtheUrgencyofSelf-Writing inElcuartodeatrás(1978)byCarmenMartínGaite 117 5 ALifeMadeWholebyLiteratureinL’écritureoulavie(1994) andLegrandvoyage(1963)byJorgeSemprún 139 6 ProustianAestheticsandtheEthicsofHistoryWritinginTu rostromañana(2002–2007)byJavierMarías 165 Conclusion 195 Bibliography 197 Index 207 AbouttheAuthor 213 vii Acknowledgments My gratitude is due first and foremost to my doctoral supervisor at Univer- sityCollegeLondon,Dr.GarethWood,whosepatientreadingandperceptive questions largely shaped the form this book ultimately took. If I were to confess that the best ideas contained herein are his, it would be neither an exaggeration nor a display of false modesty. Credit is due to others too: James Agar made an invaluable contribution to my research on Juan Benet by suggesting I look into the nouveau roman and into attitudes towards Proust among French writers of the mid-twentieth century; Dr. Claire Lind- sayhelpedtoguidemythinkingonthesubjectsofinfluenceandintertextual- ity. Elena Pascual’s keen sensitivity to methodological incongruity helped meto honemy sometimes muddled thinking.Dr.ChristineEastman’satten- tive proofreading saved me no little embarrassment by helping to eliminate syntactical inconsistencies and grammatical faux pas. Professor Herbert Craig was generous with his encouraging feedback, as were my doctoral examiners Dr. Stanley Black and Professor Timothy Mathews. Institutional expertise at the University College London Library, the British Library, the Senate House Library, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, and the Archivo GeneraldelaAdministraciónwasreadilyaccessibleandmuchappreciated.I am obliged also to the Arts and Humanities Research Council whose finan- cial support made this research possible. The list of conference organizers and participants, journal editors and anonymous reviewers whose unremu- neratedyetmunificentlaborscontinuallyenrichedthisworkistooextensive to enumerate here.Anyerrors that remain in thisbookin spiteof thegener- ousinputofsomanyareofcourseentirelymyown. Sections of this book have been published previously. Part of the Intro- duction was published by Oxford University Press in an article entitled “In Search of a Lost Culture: Dissident Translations in Franco’s Spain,” Forum ix
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