What is it about?
Arturo Pérez-Reverte makes use of the spy novel genre to dismantle the grand narratives of the Spanish Civil War and thereby avoid the manipulation of collective memory and identities.
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Why is it important?
When historiography is used to serve an ideology, history becomes a myth, a fixed identity that represents the interests of a particular group. In doing so, it focuses on the group’s immutable essence, constructing fixed heroic narratives that make imagined communities possible.
Perspectives
To reveal the myths generated by both contending sides of the civil war and presents a violent, selfish world without values – a place where only a few live according to their ideals
Dr Emilio L Ramon
Universidad Catolica de Valencia San Vicente Martir
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This page is a summary of: colapso de las narrativas identitarias en Eva (2017) de Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, June 2022, University of Ottawa Library,
DOI: 10.18192/rceh.v44i3.6358.
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