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Through the Sartrean Lens: Existential Freedom in Camilo José Cela's La colmena
Ist Teil von
Bulletin of Spanish studies (2002), 2014-07, Vol.91 (6), p.847-867
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Readers return once and again to Camilo José Cela's innovative novel La colmena (1951) and note its gritty and unapologetic approach to the problem of existence. This approach, however, has never been elucidated with any degree of precision, particularly when it comes to the fundamental question of existential freedom that is palpable in the text. In this article I propose to take up the discussion of how La colmena offers an existentialist view on the dialectic of freedom. My argument is that the very concept of freedom and its attendant responsibility as articulated in this early novel can be considered part and parcel of Cela's broader social critique of post-Civil War Spain.