Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Supervisor: Vance Holloway. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Literatura mención Literatura Chilena e Hispanoamericana. / Por ello, planteamos que la obra de Arturo Pérez – Reverte presenta una nueva forma de entregar la narración, resultado de las visibles huellas de la novela de folletín y la novela policial que se aprecian en sus obras, dando como resultado una novela ágil y dinámica que logra configurar nuevas imágenes del ser hombre y del ser mujer en este nuevo milenio en que vivimos.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-07-30Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:43:34Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 marcari_mfao_dr_assis.pdf: 912757 bytes, checksum: 6bbf978002f9f328f562b62463397b97 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os seis romances que constituem a série El capitán Alatriste (1996-2006), do escritor espanhol Arturo Pérez-Reverte, com o intuito de comprovar a tese de que a reescritura do século XVII espanhol elaborada pela série tem a pretensão de veicular um conhecimento “objetivo e verdadeiro“ da história, por meio de uma visão monológica dos fatos históricos ficcionalizados, reafirmando, assim, pressupostos da narrativa histórica clássica. Para tanto, apoiamos nossa análise na investigação do hibridismo formal, que se configura por meio da exploração simultânea de gêneros, tais como a narrativa histórica, as memórias, o romance de formação, o romance picaresco e o romance-folhetim, cujo paradigma é ditado pela obra de Alexandre Dumas. Na análise da releitura do folhetim, servimo-nos das teorizações de Umberto Eco (1964 e 1978) sobre a literatura de massa, procurando demonstrar que as narrativas assumem formas recorrentes, nas quais detectamos homologias entre as estruturas narrativas, o enredo e as proposições ideólogicas do autor No exame dos procedimentos narrativos, analisamos, dentre outros aspectos, as características do personagem-narrador, o qual funciona como intérprete autorizado dos acontecimentos históricos ficcionalizados, na medida em que se configura também como porta-voz do sistema de valores preconizado nos romances. Assim sendo, demonstramos que a revisitação da história espanhola proposta pelos romances tende a enaltecer as dimensões heróicas da história imperial espanhola. / This research was carried out to analyze the six novels of the series El capitán Alatriste (1996- 2006), by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte, to prove the thesis that the rewriting of the Spanish 19th century organized by the series claims at spreading an “objective and true” knowledge of history, by means of a monological vision of historical facts turned into fiction, thus reaffirming the presuppositions of classical historical narrative. Therefore, our analysis is based on the investigation of the formal hybridism which is formed by means of the simultaneous exploitation of genres, such as the historical narrative, memoirs, the didactic novel, the picaresque novel and the serial novel whose paradigm is provided by Alexandre Dumas’ works. In the analysis of serial rewriting, we made use of Umberto Eco’s theorizations (1964 and 1978) about mass literature, trying to prove that narratives takes on recurrent forms, in which one may find out homologies between the narrative structures, the plot and the author’s ideological propositions. In the examination of the narrative procedures, among other features we analyzed the characteristics of the character-narrator, who acts as an authorized interpreter of the historical events turned into fiction, to the extent that he also takes the shape of a spokesman of value system confirmed in the novels. In that case, we proved that the revisiting of the Spanish history proposed in novels tends to exalt the heroic dimensions of the Spanish imperial history.

Ce travail dans un premier temps se propose de contribuer à l’élaboration d’une théorie psychanalytique du héros en s’appuyant notamment sur les notions d’Idéal du Moi et sur les processus d’identification. Tout acte d’écriture entraîne une réfraction du Moi de l’auteur ainsi qu’une répartition des différentes instances de ce Moi sur les personnages. Le héros est celui qui parvient à fondre en un seul être l’Idéal du Moi et le Moi tout en cristallisant sur lui des processus identificatoires.A partir de ce cadre théorique, l’étude explore ensuite la question du héros dans l’œuvre d’Arturo Pérez Reverte. Nous y analysons quelques procédés poétiques récurrents dans ses romans. Nous abordons notamment la spécificité des incipit révertiens qui plongent d’emblée le héros dans un monde chaotique, le rapport du héros à l’Histoire et plus généralement le travail de l’auteur sur la représentation historique, le rôle du jeu comme métaphore de l’univers et la place de l’élément adverse dans le récit, la portée métaphysique de certains des espaces représentés et enfin nous exposons différents modèles de construction du héros. Dans une dernière partie, nous utilisons les chroniques publiées dans El semanal afin d’aborder la part de l’auteur. Nous y analysons divers processus identificatoires (identifications héroïques et identifications projectives) et y examinons différentes instances du Moi représentées dans son œuvre. Nous concluons sur la prédominance de l’instance surmoïque qui laisse une empreinte considérable sur le héros révertien et plus généralement sur l’écriture d’Arturo Pérez Reverte. / Insérer ici votre résumé en anglais The first part of this thesis attempts to make a contribution to the elaboration of a psychoanalytic theory of the hero, based essentially on the concepts of the Ideal Ego and processes of identification. Every authorial action necessarily involves a refraction of the authorial Ego and thus a distribution of the different aspects of this Ego among the characters. The hero is thus the character who is able to bring together in a single person the Ideal Ego and the Ego and at the same time crystallise the identification processes.Using this theoretical apparatus, our study then explores the question of the hero in the work of Arturo Pérez Reverte. We will examine some recurring poetic devices in his novels. Particularly we will look at the specific characteristics of Reverte’s incipits which plunge the hero from the start into a chaotic universe; the relationship between the hero and History and, more generally the author’s representation of History; the role of the game as a metaphor for the universe and the place of the hostile element in the story; the metaphysical ramifications of certain physical spaces which are represented and finally we will discuss different models for the construction of the hero.The last section uses the chronicles published in El semanal in order to examine the author’s role. We analyse different identification processes (heroic identifications, projective identifications) and examine different agencies of the Ego represented in his work. We will conclude by showing the predominance of the Super-ego agency as the most representative of the revertian hero and more generally in the writing of Arturo Pérez Reverte.

El húsar es la primera novela de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Escrita en 1983 cuando el autoraún no tenía intención de dedicarse a la literatura, pasó prácticamente desapercibidapara crítica hasta que la publicación de La tabla de Flandes en 1990 disparó lapopularidad de un escritor que en 2003 acabaría ingresando en la Real AcademiaEspañola. Tan solo un año después, en 2004, vuelve a publicarse El húsar, esta vez condiferencias significativas respecto a la primera edición en la que es, hasta la fecha, laúnica obra revisada y corregida por el autor. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar las diferencias textuales entre laspublicaciones de El húsar de 1983 y de 2004. Para ello, esta investigación 1) estudia lasvariantes que Pérez-Reverte introduce en 2004 en el texto de El húsar atendiendo a tresámbitos lingüísticos: el morfosintáctico, el ortográfico y el textual; y 2) clasifica lasvariantes según tres tipologías de reescritura: adición, sustitución y sustracción.Metodológicamente, este trabajo se acoge a los conceptos y prácticas de investigaciónde la crítica genética. / The Hussar is Arturo Pérez-Reverte's first novel. Written in 1983 when the author had still no intention of becoming a writer, it was barely noticed by critics until 1990's when the publication of The Chess Master triggered the popularity of a writer who joined the Spanish Royal Academy in 2003. One year later, in 2004, The Hussar was published again, this time with significant differences compared to the first edition and it the only work to date that has been revised and corrected by the author. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the textual differences between the publications of The hussar from 1983 and 2004. To do this, this research 1) studies the variants that Pérez-Reverte introduces in 2004 in the text of El hussar according to threelinguistic fields: morphosyntactic, orthographic and textual; and 2) classifies the variants according to three typologies of rewriting: addition, substitution and subtraction. Methodologically, this work is based on the concepts and research practices of genetic criticism.

“The Problem of Immigration and Contemporary Spanish Detective Fiction” examines the viability of the detective genre as a forum to dispute the commonly held perception of contemporary immigration to Spain as a problem. Focusing first on popular series of the Transition and Disenchantment periods that followed the death of Francisco Franco, I identify the detective novel, and in particular the hard-boiled variety on which the Spanish tradition is based, as an ideal space for discussions of otherness. In the 1990s, as large-scale immigration to Spain became an increasing reality, North Africans, Latin Americans, and Eastern Europeans joined minority groups already marginalised within Spain and became the focus of well-known authors such as Jorge Martínez Reverte, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Andreu Martín and relative newcomers Yolanda Soler Onís, José Javier Abasolo, Lorenzo Silva, and Antonio Lozano. All use the conventions of the detective genre––suspense, pursuit, intrigue––to address misconceptions about immigration and to reveal that the ultimate culprits in these stories are ill-willed traffickers, corrupt security agencies, and the widespread apathy of parts of the Spanish population and its government. Through the twists and turns of their storylines, these politically committed authors show that while immigrants may be forced to inhabit Spain’s underbelly, they are not single-handedly responsible for Spanish society’s perceived demise. My dissertation is informed by a multi-disciplinary approach that draws on media, cultural, socio-anthropological, and postcolonial studies. The connection between crime literature and the mass media is especially intriguing given the latter’s power of influence over the conceptualisation of immigration. The detective texts juxtapose the media of the post-modern electronic information age, which is by definition frontier-less, with a nation designing ever-stronger borders. While analysing the various borders that divide a national and global society in the entangled tale of immigration to Spain, and the discursive roles they play within the codified genre of crime fiction, I argue that these authors use the conventions of their medium to provide internal views of the process of immigration as an alternative to the voyeuristic daily reporting that otherwise threatens to desensitise the Spanish public to the topic altogether.

“The Problem of Immigration and Contemporary Spanish Detective Fiction” examines the viability of the detective genre as a forum to dispute the commonly held perception of contemporary immigration to Spain as a problem. Focusing first on popular series of the Transition and Disenchantment periods that followed the death of Francisco Franco, I identify the detective novel, and in particular the hard-boiled variety on which the Spanish tradition is based, as an ideal space for discussions of otherness. In the 1990s, as large-scale immigration to Spain became an increasing reality, North Africans, Latin Americans, and Eastern Europeans joined minority groups already marginalised within Spain and became the focus of well-known authors such as Jorge Martínez Reverte, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Andreu Martín and relative newcomers Yolanda Soler Onís, José Javier Abasolo, Lorenzo Silva, and Antonio Lozano. All use the conventions of the detective genre––suspense, pursuit, intrigue––to address misconceptions about immigration and to reveal that the ultimate culprits in these stories are ill-willed traffickers, corrupt security agencies, and the widespread apathy of parts of the Spanish population and its government. Through the twists and turns of their storylines, these politically committed authors show that while immigrants may be forced to inhabit Spain’s underbelly, they are not single-handedly responsible for Spanish society’s perceived demise. My dissertation is informed by a multi-disciplinary approach that draws on media, cultural, socio-anthropological, and postcolonial studies. The connection between crime literature and the mass media is especially intriguing given the latter’s power of influence over the conceptualisation of immigration. The detective texts juxtapose the media of the post-modern electronic information age, which is by definition frontier-less, with a nation designing ever-stronger borders. While analysing the various borders that divide a national and global society in the entangled tale of immigration to Spain, and the discursive roles they play within the codified genre of crime fiction, I argue that these authors use the conventions of their medium to provide internal views of the process of immigration as an alternative to the voyeuristic daily reporting that otherwise threatens to desensitise the Spanish public to the topic altogether.

This thesis analyzes the relevance of Miguel de Unamuno’s idea of Spain and its Nietzschean influence in two contemporary authors, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Luisa Castro. My work contributes to a debate that is ever present in literature and politics: what is Spain and what defines Spanish identity. This debate has continued throughout the democratic period and reveals that Spain is still a controversial idea. The Constitution of 1978 might have shaped national identity but Spanish sociopolitical evolution has indeed questioned the idea of Spain emerged in the Transition. From my point of view, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Luisa Castro evoke Unamuno’s ideological inheritance to offer a solution of what has been branded as the age-old problem of Spain. By the end of the nineteenth century, Unamuno introduced his theory of intrahistory in order to contravene the model of nation promoted by the political class during the Restoration. The author considered that this model imposed on society a metaphysical idealization, protected by reason, which distorted its actual national identity. Currently, the works of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Luisa Castro reflect Unamunian intrahistory thus putting an end to this idealization. As seen in the chapters of this thesis, the combined analysis of the works by Pérez-Reverte and Castro reveals the implicit survival in our days of Nietzsche’s influence in Unamuno’s intrahistory. In this sense, they highlight the crucial role of individual subjectivity, work and interaction with their immediate environment, in the characterization of Spanish national identity. In so doing, their works reflect Unamuno’s implementation of Nietzschean theories on metaphysics, the Greek tragedy, the eternal recurrence and the overman. Pérez-Reverte and Castro’s works suggest that the solution to the problem of identity in Spain is to be found in Nietzsche’s influence on Unamuno’s intrahistory.