Identifier: TDX:567
Authors:
Vernet Pons, Vicenç
Abstract:
La estrategia ficcional en la novela de Álvaro Retana, as an investigation work, analyses the narrative development of the writer Álvaro Retana (1890-1970) to be placed, as he deserves, in the group of inter-war period Spanish novelists. Álvaro Retana - contemporary of Hoyos y Vinent, Joaquín Belda or Rafael López de Haro, among others- has a literary production that stretches from 1918 to 1964, in which one has to point up his constant collaboration in the publications of short stories that had a great success and popular spread before the Spanish Civil War. Besides of being a novelist, he is related to the world of journalism, to which he contributes with the pseudonymous of Carlos Fortuny, and also he was related with the world of 'género ínfimo', as a songwriter of 'cuplés', costume designer, and composer. In the year 1939, after a war trial, he is imprisoned in the Porlier jail of Madrid, being sentenced to death. Later on in 1948 he is pardoned and he comes out of prison. He also had been in jail because of the publication of some of his literary writings under the Primo de Rivera´s dictatorship. Álvaro Retana was forgotten by the official critics and put aside by the Spanish Literary History. He is the author of more than a hundred short novels, and amongst his most famous long novels and essays we can stand out: Carne de tablado (1918), El crepúsculo de las diosas (1919), which depict the atmosphere of 'el género ínfimo' in Madrid and Barcelona; El octavo pecado capital (1920), Raquel, ingenua y libertina (1923), as the alternative to the erotic novel of French origin; the autobiography Mi alma desnuda (1923), in which the biographic fake is being played; Las locas de postín (1918), A Sodoma en tren botijo (1933), chronicle reports about the aristocratic and
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