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Making a Career of the Arrière-garde: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez as World Author

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2011

César Domínguez
César Domínguez*
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Facultade de Filoloxía, Teoría da literatura e Literatura Comparada, Burgo das Nacións s/n°, 15782 - Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña), España. E-mail: cesar.dominguez@usc.es
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Abstract

To Darío Villanueva

In this essay I take a closer look at the international dimension of the arrière-garde. I will deal exclusively with the issue of whether being arrière-garde may play a significant role in the international canonization of a writer. My case study is based on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928), a Spanish writer with a world – that is to say, an international – literary career who nevertheless has been excluded from the Spanish national canon precisely because of being ‘arrière-gardiste’. Blasco Ibáñez's world literary career and his exclusion from the national canon are assessed from a generational viewpoint. Because of the limitations inherent to the generation method, though, I will also explore a prosopographical approach by investigating a field shared by a collective biography of writers. Notwithstanding the provisional nature of the data, the approach may contribute to a better understanding of both the arrière-garde as an international phenomenon and world literary careers.

Type
Focus: Avant-garde/Arriere-garde
Information
European Review , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , 14 April 2011 , pp. 307 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2011

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