Anatomía de un instante de Javier Cercas: la novela democrática a debate
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In this article I intend to analyze some aspects of what was called CT or culture of the Transition (Labrador 2017), especially in what refers to the approach to the attempted coup of 23-F, a founding milestone of this process. If the Transition was thought of as a myth that interpreted a process, then the nucleus was 23-F, its hegemonic mythema since it organizes a metaphorical memory between the dictatorship and the incipient democracy. The ideological condensation of 23-F transforms the pact of the political Transition and makes visible the disenchantment of the Spanish intellectual and middle class. From there, two possible readings arise: the one that enables “peace” and the one that puts the memory of the transition in tension. The first is the one that we will analyze in Javier Cercas's Anatomy of an Instant. From the reading, we propose that the Transition can no longer be thought outside of its media consistency. Thinking of this novel as a semiotic artifact that operates ideologically on the ideology of "incipient democracy" also enables us to criticize the triad of heroes that is built as the programmatic and argumentative axis of the plot.
Keywords: Transition; Memory; Democracy; Novel; Coup.
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