La fantasia del marit monstruós en 'La clau de ferro', de Pere Calders

Pere Calders's work has been regarded as fantastic and gothic metafiction, for his short stories are often ironical rewritings of the genre's main storylines and tropes. However, from a psychoanalytic approach, this dialogue with literary tradition can also be understood as an exploration...

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Autor: Maestre Brotons, Antoni
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/70672
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/70672
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:ficció gòtica
metaficció
fantasia
masculinitat
gothic fiction
metafiction
fantasy
masculinity
ficción gótica
metaficción
fantasía
masculinidad
Calders, Pere, 1912-1994 -- Criticism and interpretation
Calders, Pere, 1912-1994 -- Crítica i interpretació
Calders, Pere, 1912-1994 -- Crítica e interpretación
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Resumo:Pere Calders's work has been regarded as fantastic and gothic metafiction, for his short stories are often ironical rewritings of the genre's main storylines and tropes. However, from a psychoanalytic approach, this dialogue with literary tradition can also be understood as an exploration of the meaning of fantasy or the way fiction shapes personal identity as well as social reality and culture. This idea is clearly apparent in one of Calders's short stories, 'La clau de ferro' - 'The iron key' -, in which a man, in order to gain social notoriety, creates a make-believe mysterious character similar to the uncanny heroes of gothic novels. This seductive fantasy becomes so powerful that it ends up substituting reality, which the protagonists of the story are unable to accept.