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Volume 8: Issue 1
Ventanas de Manhattan: una reflexión metacultural
Author:
Fernando Rodríguez-Mansilla Universidad de Navarra 31080 Pamplona Espa?a

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Pages:
23–35
Online Publication Date:
12 Jul 2006
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2006
Article Category:
Journal Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/verb.8.2006.1.2
Keywords (Spanish):
Ventanas de Manhattan; contemporary Spanish novel; arts and literature; culture; Antonio Muńoz Molina
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The paper considers Antonio Muńoz Molina's novel, {Ventanas de Manhattan}, and regards it as a reflection on culture. First, the structure of the novel is inspired by the topic of the "window" and the style of writing, basically description, conforms to an "art of looking" based on the narrator's habit of looking at art, which is considered to be one of the finest expressions of culture. In other respects, this narrative poetics fails when the narrator attempts to provide a description of the current reality of New York. This failure, a crisis of representation, is provoked, at the time, by a crisis of culture: the contemporary world does not harmonize culture as "art" with culture as a "way of life." New York appears in the book as a modern Babylon, where the narrator-protagonist seeks his identity and judges the way the world goes.

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1585-079X
Online ISSN:
1588-4309

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