El colapso de las narrativas identitarias en Eva (2017) de Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Authors

  • Emilio Ramón García Universidad Católica de Valencia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i3.6358

Abstract

Arturo Pérez-Reverte makes use of the spy novel genre to dismantle the grand narratives of the Spanish Civil War and thereby avoid the manipulation of collective memory and identities. When historiography is used to serve an ideology, history becomes a myth, a fixed identity that represents the interests of a particular group. In doing so, it focuses on the group’s immutable essence, constructing fixed heroic narratives that make imagined communities possible. Eva reveals the myths generated by both contending sides of the civil war and presents a violent, selfish world without values – a place where only a few live according to their ideals

Published

2022-06-04

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Articles