The Hermeneutics of a Gaze: The Function of Visuality in Soldados de Salamina (2001) by Javier Cercas

Authors

  • Ana María Casas-Olcoz Universidad de Navarra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2022.27.10

Keywords:

Soldados de Salamina, Javier Cercas, visuality, memory novel, Cognitive Literary Studies

Abstract

In order to address a neglected issue in the reception of the novel, this article analyzes the centrality assumed by the sense of sight in Soldados de Salamina (2001) by Javier Cercas. Based on Cognitive Literary Studies, my intention is to show that the novel not only describes accurately the faculty of sight, but more significantly certain cognitive processes associated with it. In this way, it is my hypothesis that visuality responds to an essential narrative function in the novel: to recreate the experientiality of the characters, understood as the quasi-mimetic evocation of the experience of the events by a human protagonist, which activates in the reader a series of cognitive processes similar to those experienced in real life (Fludernik). Thus, I intend to contribute ultimately to the study of the productive interrelation between the body, vision and textuality in a seminal work of recent Hispanic literature.

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Published

2022-07-30

How to Cite

Casas-Olcoz, A. M. (2022). The Hermeneutics of a Gaze: The Function of Visuality in Soldados de Salamina (2001) by Javier Cercas. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (27), 184–199. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2022.27.10

Issue

No. 27 (2022): Body, Vision, and Textuality: Contemporary Poetics and the Politics of Looking

Section

Monograph

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