Mito e storia in Medusa (2012) di Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
Author(s)
Date Issued
2023
Type
article
Volume
44
Start Page
322
End Page
335
Journal
Abstract
Published in 2012, Medusa is the fifth
novel by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, a young
Asturian author and an important novelist in the
panorama of contemporary Spanish literature.
Although the novel plot would seem quite
simple – a PhD candidate is writing a thesis on the
iconography of evil in the 20th century and ends up
reconstructing the biography of Prohaska, a young
German who, thanks to his passion for drawing
and photography, becomes a propagandist of the
Nazi regime – the work results from a complex
stratification of different genres and levels of
reading, such as the narration of the main historical
events in the 20th century; the reflections about
existence and the characteristics of human nature;
the value of the written word, literature and art as
a manifestation and expression of a reality in which
time and its passage are essential, captured and
therefore communicated to catch the essence of
memory and its legacy.
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