Future forgetting: Memory, regeneration and pathology in the short fiction of Leopoldo Alas ‘Clarín’

• Isabel Cawthorn ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Birmingham

     University of Birmingham

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 102, Nº 3, 2025, págs. 573-597
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2025.2473178
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• Resumen

  • This article proposes that degeneration and regeneration are less binary concepts than they are terms utilised to attempt to carve out linear explanations for a time of ‘crisis’ at the end of the nineteenth century. I argue that two short stories written by Clarín during Spain’s ‘crisis de fin de siglo’—‘La noche-mala del Diablo’ (1896) and ‘Vario’ (1896)—allow us to analyse them as crisis of filiation narratives. I propose that both narratives reconfigure degeneration and regeneration, particularly how to define notions of memory, precedence and ‘newness’ in times of temporal turbulence, crisis and supposed regeneration.

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