Balaguer, Romantic Fictions

Authors

  • Enric Cassany Universitat Autònoma Barcelona (UAB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/cercles2016.19.1001

Keywords:

Víctor Balaguer, nineteenth ­century narrative, Romantic novel, historical novel, Catalan national mythology

Abstract

Blending history and poetry is one of the aims of Víctor Balaguer both as a historian and as a narrator. This is not to argue that Balaguer fails to draw distinctions between the invention and the reporting of historical facts, as a certain anti­Romantic historiography and criticism would lead us to believe. An exploration of Balaguer’s early narrative output (from the eighteen­forties to sixties) raises a number of points that clarify what he understands to be the poeticisation of History. Over the assertions of Balaguer

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Published

2016-11-13

Issue

No. 19 (2016): Cercles. A Journal of Cultural History 19.

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