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The writing-constellation of Walter Benjamin as an alternative to the history : on the shore (2013) by Rafael Chirbes = La escritura-constelación de Walter Benjamin como alternativa de la historia : en la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes

Maarten Geeroms (UGent)
(2017) BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES. 94(7). p.747-764
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The present article analyses Rafael Chirbes' novel En la orilla (2013), drawing on the influence exercised by Walter Benjamin on the author's narrative writing. I propose that the novel's structure, by incorporating a heterogeneous number of autodiegetic narrative voices under the drawn-back gaze of a neutral omniscient narrator, follows the German philosopher's concept of the constellation. According to Benjamin, this method of writing constitutes an alternative to the historical prejudice underpinning traditional historiography. By adopting this procedure, Chirbes, to whom history represents a temporal continuum rather than a chain of independent stages, situates the roots of Spain's latest economic crisis in a lack of collective and individual processing of the Civil War, which dates back to the time of the conflict and extends to this day.

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Geeroms, Maarten. “The Writing-Constellation of Walter Benjamin as an Alternative to the History : On the Shore (2013) by Rafael Chirbes = La Escritura-Constelación de Walter Benjamin Como Alternativa de La Historia : En La Orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes.” BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, vol. 94, no. 7, 2017, pp. 747–64, doi:10.3828/bhs.2017.46.
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Geeroms, M. (2017). The writing-constellation of Walter Benjamin as an alternative to the history : on the shore (2013) by Rafael Chirbes = La escritura-constelación de Walter Benjamin como alternativa de la historia : en la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes. BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, 94(7), 747–764. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2017.46
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Geeroms, Maarten. 2017. “The Writing-Constellation of Walter Benjamin as an Alternative to the History : On the Shore (2013) by Rafael Chirbes = La Escritura-Constelación de Walter Benjamin Como Alternativa de La Historia : En La Orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes.” BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES 94 (7): 747–64. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2017.46.
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Geeroms, Maarten. 2017. “The Writing-Constellation of Walter Benjamin as an Alternative to the History : On the Shore (2013) by Rafael Chirbes = La Escritura-Constelación de Walter Benjamin Como Alternativa de La Historia : En La Orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes.” BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES 94 (7): 747–764. doi:10.3828/bhs.2017.46.
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Geeroms M. The writing-constellation of Walter Benjamin as an alternative to the history : on the shore (2013) by Rafael Chirbes = La escritura-constelación de Walter Benjamin como alternativa de la historia : en la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes. BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES. 2017;94(7):747–64.
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M. Geeroms, “The writing-constellation of Walter Benjamin as an alternative to the history : on the shore (2013) by Rafael Chirbes = La escritura-constelación de Walter Benjamin como alternativa de la historia : en la orilla (2013) de Rafael Chirbes,” BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES, vol. 94, no. 7, pp. 747–764, 2017.
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