Idle Fictions
The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926-1934, Expanded Edition
Duke University Press · Print & ebook · September 22, 1993
The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development.
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- Who it’s for
- Pérez Firmat examines the playful vanguard novel and its challenge to literary hierarchies.
- Genres
- Hispanic American Lit Crit, 20th-Century Literary Criticism, Iberian Lit Crit
- Published
- Duke University Press, September 22, 1993
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The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated "a class war not between social classes but between literary classes."
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Concentrating on source material not widely available, Pérez Firmat reconstructs the reception these novels received at the time of their publication, then develops a reading of them based on the intellectual context of this reception. A new preface and an appendix on vanguard biographies have been added to this paperback edition.
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Pérez Firmat examines the playful vanguard novel and its challenge to literary hierarchies.
Come here for
- How playful vanguard novels challenged the modern Hispanic novel’s literary hierarchy
- Reconstructed contemporary reception and its intellectual context
Expect
- Novels from Spain and Spanish America, 1926–1934
- A new preface and an appendix on vanguard biographies
Where it sits
| Hispanic American Lit Crit | 81% |
|---|---|
| Iberian Lit Crit | 46% |
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Iberian Lit Crit
- Authors
- Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Gustavo Perez Firmat
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- September 22, 1993
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Iberian Lit Crit