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Errancy and Alterity : Antonio Muñoz Molina's Search for Lost Time. / O'Donoghue, Samuel.
In: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2013, p. 211-232.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Errancy and Alterity
T2 - Antonio Muñoz Molina's Search for Lost Time
AU - O'Donoghue, Samuel
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This article considers Antonio Muñoz Molina's debt to Marcel Proust in his use of literature as a means of exploring alterity in the novel Sefarad (2001). Adapting Proust's model for the recovery of the self through fiction, Muñoz Molina demonstrates how to engage empathetically with the victims of mid-twentieth century history. Sefarad thus posits a search for lost time through the forgotten testimonies of suffering at the hands of totalitarian regimes as a means of constructing identity, of comprehending the self in relation to the other.
AB - This article considers Antonio Muñoz Molina's debt to Marcel Proust in his use of literature as a means of exploring alterity in the novel Sefarad (2001). Adapting Proust's model for the recovery of the self through fiction, Muñoz Molina demonstrates how to engage empathetically with the victims of mid-twentieth century history. Sefarad thus posits a search for lost time through the forgotten testimonies of suffering at the hands of totalitarian regimes as a means of constructing identity, of comprehending the self in relation to the other.
KW - Muñoz Molina
KW - Proust
KW - self
KW - other
KW - alterity
KW - fiction
KW - history
KW - empathy
U2 - 10.1080/14701847.2013.918569
DO - 10.1080/14701847.2013.918569
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 211
EP - 232
JO - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
JF - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
SN - 1470-1847
IS - 3
ER -