Jaume Cabré

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Η δίνη της αλήθειας της Ιστορίας «Οι φωνές του ποταμού Παμάνο»
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As part of historically minorized culture, Catalan literature endured difficult periods, e.g., the Francoist regime. To imagine different worlds writing in this language was even more arduous in the 20 th century because of the negative attitude towards the fantastic shared by two fundamental trends of Catalan literature up to the 1970s: Noucentisme and historical realism. Nonetheless, H.P. Lovecraft was an important reference in the Catalan non-mimetic fiction that had a certain revival in postwar times. As a step towards "normalization" of Catalan literature after Franco's death, the writers' collective Ofèlia Dracs published several collections of short-stories of "genre" fiction-among them Lovecraft, Lovecraft! (1981). On the one hand, this article inscribes this exceptional collection in its historical context and in the contemporary Catalan literary system; on the other, it aims to shed light on Lovecraft's role in Ofèlia Dracs' book, proving the projection of his extraordinary supernatural world onto it by the presence not only of Lovecraftian hypotexts in its different tales, but also of metafictional elements inherited mainly from Joan Perucho's postmodernist writings.

El análisis sin menoscabo de la venganza, los celos y, siempre constante, más allá, la muerte y la obsesiva sombra del mal son comunes en los textos de Cabré. Como hiciera en el libro de relatos Viaje de invierno (2014), esa veta subrepticia aglutina con tensión desigual los trece cuentos presentes. En el epílogo del libro el autor nos da noticia de cómo saltan a su zurrón literario estos cuentos que compone y colecciona mientras anda a medias con una novela en suspenso.

Based on the data of modern post-Fregean logic (J. Hintikka, B. Lourié and others), the author considers the plurality of virtual worlds in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s tetralogy The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (2001–2016). Turning to the idea of a “book zero” (J.L. Borges, C. Camps Mundó) and especially to V.N. Toporov’s philosophy of Russian literature (The Thing in the Anthropocentric Perspective, or The Apology of Plyushkin), the author suggests that the tetralogy fails to present a final narrative about the fate of one of the main characters, David Martín, and that his and his girlfriend Cristina Sagnier’s fates can be considered quite similar to those of the characters in Goethe’s Faust, who, as we learn in the end, are saved due to love, creativity and longing for eternal femininity. Further, the article discusses
some possible precedents for Zafón’s tetralogy (The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier, Of
Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez) and hypothesizes, based on the ideas of Walter
Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, about the existence of two large groups of literary works devoted to
the plurality of worlds: in the first group, the characters’ redemption is thought of and portrayed as
purely psychological or virtual, while the devil (and the spiritual ideal of the characters) as non-existent.
Zafón’s novels definitely belong to the second category as asserting the real ontology of the virtual
world. For example, the final refuge of Martín and Cristina resembles Dante’s and Mikhail Bulgakov’s
limbo. Thus, the author of this paper believes that both Corelli (as either the Evil One or his high-ranking
representative) and the place of Martín’s final redemption are real, in full accordance with the post-Fregean logic of virtual worlds and partly even contrary to the writer’s own instructions (given, however, through the haze of virtuality) in the tetralogy’s recently published fourth volume The Labyrinth of Spirits.