Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by the European critiques of the time. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," along "Paula y Paulita," "Escenas junto a la muerte" and "Teoria del zumbel," belong to a fiction cycle, unique in the peninsular narrative of those years; novels in which Jarnes experiments with the new forms of metafiction to highlight the existential condition of the human being in the newly technified mass society. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," simultaneously "agonic" and...
Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by t...
Lo rojo y lo azul, first published in 1932, can be considered an ideal introduction to the universe of the Aragonese writer Benjamín Jarnés (1888-1949) for the same several reasons that also single it out within his fiction works.
First, the novel is directly based on historical facts: an anarchist revolt in a military barracks. This historical basis is intertwined in the plot, and so is the author's military training years language.
Second, the novel aims to point out what the author considers full of falsehood: military, bourgeois and revolutionary...
Lo rojo y lo azul, first published in 1932, can be considered an ideal introduction to the universe of the Aragonese writer Benjamí...
Paula and Paulita, published in 1929, is one of the best novels of the Aragonese writer Benjamín Jarnés (1888-1949), unanimously considered the most important novelist of the Spanish avant-garde.
Divided in two parts, the novel exposes Julio’s, the main character, attempts to seduce a young woman, Paulita, who happens to be staying with her mother, Paula, at the same spa hotel.
Along their encounters Julio will ponder on sensations, the power of the body, the paths of desire and the artificiality of the landscape.
In the second part, the...
Paula and Paulita, published in 1929, is one of the best novels of the Aragonese writer Benjamín Jarnés (1888-1949), unanimo...
