Citation

Wood DW. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 2018; 42(2): 249-265.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018)

DOI

10.18192/rceh.v42i2.3116

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Death horns overAzorín's works from his earliest short stories to his more developed novels of the 1940s. This article examines three instances of suicide in Buscapiés (1894), Bohemia (1897) and Diario de un enfermo (1901). With the publication of'La voluntad in 1902, Azorín's characters show a lack of will to take their own lives. In previous works, however, characters manifest sufficient determination to escape unbearable tensions through suicide. I argue that suicide in his early works results from a desperate resolve and the conflict between words, writing and existence that confront the two writerprotagonists in Bohemia and Diario de un enfermo. In the case of the civil servant in Buscapiés it becomes an overt condemnation of Spain's Restoration government. © 2018 Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; Death; Reflexivity; Bohemia; Azorin [1873-1967]; Buscapiés; Decadence; Diario de un enfermo