MIQUEL DE PALOL: COSMOGONY AND METHOD

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to offer a theoretical approach to the formal models which determine most of Miquel de Palol’s narrative production. It will focus specifically on mnemonic art which is central to his writing; the execution and reproduction through which the writer mobilizes the main elements that compose his stories, from Bach’s music, Lullism, the encyclopaedic prototype of the Romantics or Gödel’s mathematics. This interdisciplinary theoretical background will open up space from which to analyse Palol’s literature. Issues such as the point of view or time, fundamental in Palol’s work, as well as the treatment of space, will allow for an understanding of how the Palolian universe is built – a world that has at its core the literary and philosophical development of “Joc de la Fragmentació” (“The Fragmentation Game”).