Narrative Strategies and Power Plays in Jaume Cabré'sFra Junoy o l'agonia dels sons

Autor:	Kathleen M. Glenn
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature History Literature and Literary Theory business.industry Abuse of power Sister CONTEST language.human_language Power (social and political) language Religious life Catalan Narrative business Humanities
Zdroj:	Romance Quarterly. 58:114-125
ISSN:	1940-3216 0883-1157
DOI:	10.1080/08831157.2011.550517
Popis:	A concern with the use and abuse of power, how it is exercised, by whom, and to what ends runs throughout the fiction of Catalan writer Jaume Cabre. His 1984 novel Fra Junoy o l'agonia dels sons, which was awarded the Premi Prudenci Bertrana, Critica Serra d'Or, and Nacional de la Critica, dramatizes the intransigence of ecclesiastical authorities in conflict with the desire for tolerance of a friar. Cabre employs different temporal and spatial planes, shifting points of view, and one of his favorite strategies, that of beginning his novels in medias res and showing the consequences of actions before narrating the actions themselves. A contrapuntal technique contrasts not just characters, but differing concepts of religion and religious life, and sets quotations from the Bible against passages from the governing documents of the convent where Fra Junoy serves as confessor. The clash between his doubts and the certitude of the convent's rigid abbess calls to mind the contest between Sister Aloysiu...
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