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Isabel Cawthorn
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.
