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This article analyses Bernardo Atxaga's recent poems and its use of fictional space as a means of examining national identity, sometimes with nostalgia for a lost paradise, and sometimes with a dream of an ideal future in utopia.
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This paper reviews the representation of space in contemporary Basque literature and the evolution from an Arcadian land of the past to a quest for a new Eden in the future that will overcome present-day conflicts.
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In order to explain and describe those subjects, an array of different texts of modern Basque literature are discussed and a poem by Bernardo Atxaga (‘Written in USA’ , 2002) is closely analysed, describing the ceaseless search for happiness in a context of an "Iron Age" terrified by violence and fear.
LOURDES OTAEGI IMAZ
Museo Vasco de Historia de la Medicina y de las Ciencias
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This page is a summary of: Looking for Paradise. Utopia as a Social Issue in Basque Poetry, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, November 2016, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2016.74.
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