La fantasia del marit monstruós en "La clau de ferro" de Pere Calders
- 1 Universitat d'Alacant Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
ISSN: 2014-7910
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: The fantastic in the art
Volume: 4
Issue: 2
Pages: 189-204
Type: Article
More publications in: Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic
Abstract
Pere Calders’s work has been regarded as fantastic and gothic metafiction, for his short stories are often ironical rewritings of the genre’s main storylines and tropes. However, from a psychoanalytic approach, this dialogue with literary tradition can also be understood as an exploration of the meaning of fantasy or the way fiction shapes personal identity as well as social reality and culture. This idea is clearly apparent in one of Calders’s short stories, «La clau de ferro» —«The iron key»—, in which a man, in order to gain social notoriety, creates a make-believe mysterious character similar to the uncanny heroes of gothic novels. This seductive fantasy becomes so powerful that it ends up substituting reality, which the protagonists of the story are unable to accept.
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