The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain by Seguín, Bécquer
The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain by Seguín, Bécquer

The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain

"The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully...
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Author: Bécquer Seguín
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Language: English
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The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain by Seguín, Bécquer

The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain

$169.88
The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain by Seguín, Bécquer

The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain

$169.88
Author: Bécquer Seguín
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain's most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and literary fiction--salutary reading in the English-speaking countries, where politics and literature are still regarded as strangers to each other."--Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and Hide

A new history of contemporary Spanish fiction through the prism of novelists' newspaper columns.

Public intellectuals come in many different stripes, but most of them gain a following at least in part from their writing, whether in the form of magazine articles, newspaper columns, or full-length nonfiction. A few--James Baldwin and Joan Didion are celebrated examples--start out as novelists before turning to the rough-and-tumble of current affairs. In The Op-Ed Novel, Bécquer Seguín undertakes the first book-length study of how contemporary literature is shaped by opinion journalism, focusing on fiction writers who took to the papers in post-Franco Spain and became stewards of their country's cultural, economic, and political future.

Following Spain's transition to democracy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, internationally acclaimed novelists such as Javier Cercas, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and Javier Marías seized the opportunity to populate the opinion pages of the newly legal free press. The Op-Ed Novel analyzes how the argumentative styles and preoccupations of their columns in El País, Spain's most widely read daily, bled into their fiction. These and other authors used their novels to settle scores with fellow intellectuals, make speculative historical claims, and advance partisan political projects. At the same time, their literary technique greatly invigorated opinion journalism.

A lively guide to the terroir of contemporary Spanish literature, The Op-Ed Novel offers a bird's-eye view of both the post-Franco intellectual climate and the changing role of the novelist in public life.

Author: Bécquer Seguín
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01/09/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780674260108
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