A Map of Things Known and Lost in Anne Enright’s The Green Road
- 1 University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
ISSN: 1699-311X
Año de publicación: 2016
Número: 11
Páginas: 44-55
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Estudios irlandeses = Journal of Irish Studies
Resumen
La presente contribución interpreta la novela de Anne Enright, The Green Road (2015), como el relato de una familia irlandesa, que a su vez ofrece un versión alternativa de la historia de Irlanda y de los irlandeses desde los años 80 hasta principios del siglo XXI, así como, en términos formales, una muestra más de cómo los escritores irlandeses desestabilizan las convenciones de un género literario tradicionalmente asociado con la estabilidad británica (Eagleton 1995), y el realismo literario del siglo XIX (Hand 2011); y, en consecuencia, recurrentemente considerado como incapaz de aprehender la compleja e inestable condición de Irlanda. Enright va de lo particular a lo universal: el relato de la familia Madigan sirve a la autora para cubrir la historia reciente de Irlanda así como para tratar temas relevantes en la sociedad contemporánea como la maternidad, la religión, el sexo, la vejez, la depresión, la enfermedad, el materialismo, o las migraciones. La última novela de la escritora es, sin duda, el texto más osado e innovador en su ya dilatada trayectoria literaria, y debe ser interpretado como su contribución más destacada a un género literario con el que los escritores irlandeses no han cesado de experimentar.
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