Ortega y la reivindicación de la vida en Viviana y Merlín, de Benjamín Jarnés
Abstract
In Viviana y Merlín (1929, 1930, 1936), Benjamín Jarnés recycles an episode of the Arthurian legend involving the two title characters, whereby he avails himself of the ‘mythical method’ so widely used by modernist writers to reflect on the present with tools from the past. This article offers a close reading of Jarnés’s ’leyenda’ through the lens provided by three texts that Ortega had published in the early to mid- 1920s: El tema de nuestro tiempo and, most importantly, ‘Vitalidad, alma, espíritu’ and ‘Epílogo al libro De Francesca a Beatrice’. The article shows that Viviana y Merlín fictionalizes Ortega’s raciovitalismo as well as his topografía del ‘yo’, and it is a work tainted by the philosopher’s proverbial misogyny.
Citation
Larios , J 2020 , ' Ortega y la reivindicación de la vida en Viviana y Merlín , de Benjamín Jarnés ' , Hispanic Research Journal , vol. 20 , no. 6 , pp. 566-582 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2019.1787614
Publication
Hispanic Research Journal
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1468-2737Type
Journal article
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