Citation

Álvarez-Castro L. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 2018; 42(2): 225-248.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018)

DOI

10.18192/rceh.v42i2.3113

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The critical reception of Angel Ganivet's works allows for an understanding of authorial suicide as a cancellation of the "intentional fallacy" denounced by the New Criticism as well as a problematization of the "death of the author" proposed by Roland Barthes. In Ganivet's case (similarly to other suicidal writers), voluntary death situates the so-called real author - reduced to a discursive construction that rivals his own writings - at the very center of the critical analysis, at the same time that his works - considered as frustrated or incomplete - in some sense become author-less and, therefore, particularly susceptible to interpretive manipulation. © 2018 Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

Suicide; Ángel ganivet; Critical reception; Death of the author; Intentional fallacy