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Jose Diaz-Fernandez - The Blockhouse (Hardcover)
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Jose Diaz-Fernandez - The Blockhouse (Hardcover)
Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
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El Blocao, one of the most distinguished examples of avant-garde,
anti-colonialist prose produced in Spain, is a collection of seven
short stories parodying the highly popular serial fiction on the
country's colonial wars in Morocco. Diaz-Fernandez appropriates the
populist discourse articulated in the Moroccan War pulp fiction,
subverting it in order to denounce the political and economic
interests that inform the colonial enterprise, while effectively
adopting the rhetorical innovations introduced by the European
avant-garde during the 1920s. The Blockhouse achieved great success
from the date of its publication in 1928; it was translated into
various languages, and rapidly sold out every one of its subsequent
editions. In a Spanish literary context dominated by the
dehumanization of art, expounded by Ortega y Gasset, Jose
Diaz-Fernandez knew how to combine in his novel, the synthetic,
imagist style of the artistic vanguard with the emotion and social
commitment of the political vanguard. The novel is based on the
life experiences of the author who brings a post-colonial vision to
the narrative, thereby breaking away from the conventional anti-war
sentiments of the pacifist novel. Its unity is fragmented into a
collection of seven stories which create a unity of atmosphere;
that of a harsh and tragic, living and asphyxiating world. The
Blockhouse has been acclaimed as an innovative novelistic jewel,
with a deep, human and socio-political content.
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