Ecos de la literatura inglesa en Los secretos de San Gervasio de Carlos Pujol

  1. Carlos Villar Flor 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Journal:
Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies

ISSN: 1468-2737

Year of publication: 2021

Volume: 22

Issue: 2-3

Pages: 141-156

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1080/14682737.2021.2030526 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

More publications in: Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies

Abstract

This article analyses the Holmesian transfiction Los Secretos de San Gervasio (1994), by the prolific intellectual Carlos Pujol (1936–2012), from a comparative perspective, taking into account possible influences from the field of English literature. It discusses the footprint of Victorian and modern writers likely to have been imitated, such as Henry James, P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton or Evelyn Waugh, not forgetting Arthur Conan Doyle himself and previous authors who paved the way for perhaps the most famous character in the detective genre: Sherlock Holmes. The article debates the possible continuity or subversion of this transfiction, in consonance with the two predominant tendencies of contemporary Spanish Holmesian narrative, as well as the postmodern elements of intertextuality and metafiction within the poetics attributable to Carlos Pujol.

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